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Sure, but the entire point of the article was to get rid of batteries so I don’t understand what point you are making. This guy was trying to live life with solar panels connected directly to his devices, no batteries at all.

>>cgh+(OP)
The problem with that is that you can have a brownout from a single cloud passing. I note that his "living farm" example is much larger - scale helps. The more you have a "microgrid" or even, you know, the real grid, the more things can balance out without so much need for batteries.

It is quite dramatic how much cheaper and longer lasting the panels are, though.