aaahhh... One thing about "pricing" is that if the demand for lithium, iron, lead, silicone, copper or anything explodes by orders of magnitude, the costs will spiral out of control as well.

As it stands, we would have to import these billions of panels since China is the main manufacturer of panels presently, or we can spend additional trillions building the factories to produce the panels first. By burning fossil fuels.

And of course, even if China could ramp-up and manufacture these many billions of panels and ship them to location they would be burning fossil fuels too. China gets 56% of it's energy from coal, ships run on heavy oil...choke!

But, even if we are successful and accomplished this feat before the planet is burned to a crisp, that would still only take care of 17 % of present Global energy need, which would be increasing as we are building these billions of panels.

Too pessimistic doesn't begin to cover it....

(Thank you. A good summary of our predicament. I need a drink :-))