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In the small-scale solar world we get around this problem in a simpler way -- we user larger capacity charge controllers.

For example, I have 20kW of solar panels going into two inverter/charge controller boxes (each inverter has 10kW of solar panels feeding into it). Yet each box can handle up to 12kW. I do this because there are a few times when my solar panels exceed their stated throughput, which is when the weather is cold (below freezing) and sunny. That doesn't happen often where I live (in Alabama when it's below freezing it's almost always at night). But I have to be prepared for the few times it does happen and my 20kW solar panels give me 21 or 22kW (no problem because my inverter/charge controller boxes can handle up to 24kW).

Can't the same be done by people who want to use small-scale wind turbines to make themselves a bit more energy self-reliant? Or is the scale up to charge capacity too high for the few times it happens? (i.e. too costly to handle charge from 30 mph winds when the average day is 7 mph) It seems like it'd be way simpler and easier to maintain than having turbine blades that fold or twist or whatever in high winds.

Can't the same be done by people who want to use small-scale wind turbines to make themselves a bit more energy self-reliant?

Isn't that bowing down and kissing the ass of the government that has successfully convinced the morons that wind power is more efficient than coal fueled electric plants?

I looked at solar power a few years ago. What I discovered is that the biggest problem is finding batteries at a reasonable price for a sufficiently useful amount of storage.

It appears Lithium Iron Phosphate is the way to go, but they aren't cheap, and you will spend more on batteries than the rest of the system put together.