This is a nice marketing article, and while I completely support the transition off fossil fuels and onto renewables, I don't think it's the right approach - it

This is a nice marketing article, and while I completely support the transition off fossil fuels and onto renewables, I don't think it's the right approach - it's better to be upfront about the challenges involved in feeding intermittent energy streams into an electricity grid where demand is not aligned closely with primary production, neither on a daily nor a seasonal basis. The authors of this kind of thing should take a cue from the financial reporting on the 2008 economic crash and films like the Big Short - people can handle complexity, they're interested in hearing about default credit swaps and CDOs and the internal mechanisms of complex financial instruments - so they can certainly handle somewhat difficult energy concepts. Thus, you can tell people that if you want to run 24/7 on solar inputs alone, then at peak noon you might need your solar system to be producing twice as much power as demand is drawing from the grid, so that the rest can be diverted to storage for use in the evening and morning. If you want to get through a cold wet northern hemisphere December, then you'll need even more solar to divert to chemical fuel storage of some kind for that time period.