It isn't true that solar uses inordinate amounts of minerals, what you've read there and been influenced by, is unprovable misinformation designed to trash solar, because big business does not want anyone to become energy independent, they want all energy to be supplied through them, so that they can profit.
Did youi know utilities energy supply business is declining?
Of course they don't like that.
Batteries do have massive requirements of minerals, usuppliable, but a hydgogen ecology is perfectly fine, it does not require any minerals per kwh stored.
On copper, there is a massive amount of copper in grids, which does not have to be there, grids are no longer required, when everyone becomes energy independent. It is very recyclable, like gold, easily repurposed.
On land, solar is already supplying 20 to 30 percent of the energy requirements of the populations of all developed countries. This is how much utilities energy business has declined, relative to population.
Look around. Do you see anything like 20 or 30 percent of land used?
Multiply the solar you see around by a factor of 5 or even 10, for everyone to be in business supplying hydrogen to transportation, and that is all that is needed.
Here is the numerical proof of how energy supply is going solar:
