Battery? You do it on a big scale, using the erratic power to pump water up a mountain, then let it down again to turn turbines when you want it back as electricity.

This works amazingly well... they built one in the UK in the 80s to deal with demand peaks - it uses spare grid capacity at low load times (eg from nukes) to pump the water up and can generate something like 1.3GW within 18 seconds when required. No reason why the same theory couldn't be used with wind, tidal or solar power to help fill in the gaps.

http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/pumped.htm

This could actually work to its advantage, as long as any "frequently edited" text provides an easy way to get to the history. That way, contentious (and thus frequently edited) assertions would be obvious, allowing the user to review the list of edits and for an opinion about the changes which had been made - presumably revealing an interesting set of changes for and against creationism in the example cited above.

Ok, you could call it GNU/Linux, you could call it (as the editorial suggests) X/Linux. There's also the argument about how to pronounce Linux. Lets kill two birds with one stone here. We once had the following conversation at work :

"LIEnux? you said LIEnux!!! you heretic!"
"I slipped. bad habit. sorry i can't help it"
"this is bad for reputation sort it out."
"well if Linus didn't have such a stupid name we wouldn't be in this predicament"
"so what are you suggesting?"
"well, we'd hardly have this problem if he was called 'Bob Torvolds' now, would we?"
"what, 'BOBIX'???"
"why not?"
"you're right. I like it"

and so the deed was done. lilo.conf's were changed officewide.

Bobix - the OS made by Richard Stallman and some smug Finnish businessman amongst others.