Careful knocking the "Evangelists". Some of them had to be right, for you to be right, and as you admitted yourself in words to this effect, you might not be completely right :)
Anyhow I really like your article, as the main thrust of it is to show that practical self sufficiency on solar is achievable. Thanks for posting it.
A couple of things struck me as maybe not completely correct - Is transport really only 8% of Switzerland's energy usage, dominated by trains? I am surprised by that - I would have expected the transport load to be much bigger, dominated by air transport, followed by domestic car transport, and then freight, and then buses, and then trains at the bottom of the list.
It strikes me that the data you have there might have been brought to you by the EV industry maybe?
Another thing we see is lack of utilities energy industry data showing the full extent of domestic and community solar, for good reason - its really bad news for them, that all consumers could conceivably disappear from them - their businesses are shrinking, but their shareholder bases are not, so they are increasingly price gouging, or going bankrupt, and they don't like to let shareholders know how close to the wire they really are, to just shutting up shop and going home, which is probably the most likely reason your expectation of future power cuts is a real concern.
The real concern is all about economy, and where it has to go when all becomes solar powered.
This is why I wish folk would stop using the deceptive language of "Renewables", trying to factor in wind, etc, and even the delusion that temperature rise is down to fossil fuels alone. Its more than that, because we have not managed to dent it at all, in all the time we've been concerned with the temperature rise, not yet have we managed to do anything but make it worse. Notice it started before fossil fuels, planet desertification has been happening a long time. The equatorial desert areas were once green. Fossil fuels just accelerated it.
Why are we so fixated with fossil fuels? Profit. Fossil fuels are the most profitable product ever. It's profit we are really addicted to, not just fossil fuels.
The danger, by not realising this, is actually huge. As things stand, we could energy-bankrupt the planet chasing the wrong solution, given money is energy, an abstraction of energy. Energy quantifies what we can do with money.
If we energy bankrupt the planet, then we energy bankrupt ourselves, of even the basic 3kWhrs we each need to metabolise per day.
What is profit? Its energy extracted from the planet, always, physically. It can never be the energy of the sun, because profit means putting a little in, getting a lot more back out in return, and the sun has no input, we can't put anything into the sun to modulate its output, it gives what it gives, for free.
Anyhow wind, is just more energy extracted from the planet, and thermodynamically, this has to add to heat which is applied to the thermal mass of the planet.
Calculating the energy applied to the thermal mass of the planet is a much more reliable way to tie things down to actual figures, than the very arguable theory of greenhouse gases.
If you think it isn't arguable, that is because the "Renewables" industry is a live, nagtively powered thing, an emergent property, discouraging anyone from questioning it. It depends on you not questioning it. But look at the definition of adiabatic, and ask yourself really, how is it possible to have any kind of blanket effect, in the atmosphere which is adiabatic? Further, if there was any kind of blanket effect, between the planet at what is blamed as the main heating source, the sun, this would be an insulator between sun and planet, and the effect of that would be temperature reduction, not temperature increase.
For temperature increase, there would have to be a heat source within the blanket, heating the planet from inside, applied to the thermal mass of the planet.
Take the energy in profit, add to the known extraction and refinement losses, apply it to the thermal mass of the planet, and we get figures in the right ball park, necessary to cause the measured temperature rise.
No need for any theory of greenhouse gases, or "Renewables" technology.
Further, look at what use of solar energy means. It means taking something that would be heat if unused, and converting it to things other than heat.
Compare with using anything from the planet, which was not heat, it could be oil, wind, hydro, nuclear - all of it involves taking things that were not heat, until we used them, and converting them ultimately to heat.
So there you see the real temperature driver - profit, and the only solution, to take the energy of the sun as given, and pass it on, either as direct product, or as money. In any case it should be monetised. Money issued as debt can't monetise it, because again M.A.D. is for profit.
On your solar installation it looks like you've missed an opportunity to add significantly more panels on the roof, maybe another 16 on each side, giving an extra thirty two panels?
Would that be enough, with battery, to drive a 2.4 kWhr hydrogen electrolyser, like "Enapter" 24/7? (1kg hydrogen, every 24hrs).
Reason I ask is that if you could do that, then you would really be hyper-enabling your system, to not only store as much backup energy as you could ever conceivably need, but in addition you would have it to sell, in the form of valuable hydrogen fuel, which aerospace really needs.
In addition you could say that you really are helping save the planet, by doing more work of cooling the planet than you really need to, mostly effortlessly, after installation.
Every kg of hydrogen created in that way, regardless of efficiency is 33KWhrs more heat energy taken from the sun, which otherwise would act to heat the planet. Imagine adding that up in a year, its quite a lot of energy you could say you converted to something other than planet-heating temperature.
Anyhow apologies for the long reply, its obviously a complex subject, and apologies also for not contacting you in Linkedin. Though I have a presence there, its somewhere I deliberately avoid for now, because it distracts.
https://eric-bott.medium.com/yes-we-will-be-flying-in-hydrogen-powered-passenger-planes-93779606fff7
