This is a cool article, and I agree with the conclusion, lithium batteries are no kind of solution for scaleable "Renewable" energy storage.

It is even more of a no-brainer when we consider also that the DC of the panels in a solar farm can drive electrolysers which generate hydrogen, piped to a storage tank, and onto fuel cells, which can then drive a local grid 24/7, and the excess hydrogen sold as fuel to anyone needing it.

That is fully scaleable, and pretty much makse mains power backup batteries redundant, it seems to me.

Thanks also for the "Maladaptation" term.

I believe this term fits somehow with the meanings of negative and positive energy flows, as identfied here:

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-reason-why-degrowth-is-not-what-is-needed-4416025899a2