Not if the manufacture is done by more solar power. The hardware for subsequent installation can be cleanly manufactured from the solar power of other solar plants.

Solar is the only source which is extraterrestrial, therefore not a form of stored energy from Earth, therefore the only source which is truly sustainable.

Just one problem; it does not support the unsustainable giant energy Ponzi of the profit driven economy, which depends entirely upon energy from finite sources, i.e. all sources not from the sun.

That maybe explains why we never switched to solar when it was first offered by Nikolai Tesla, more than 120 years ago.

JP Morgan, was the sole funder of Tesla. Morgan removed his funding from that development.

The man is dead now, but his bank, and all the others live on.

Technically, the financial debt of all humanity is actually an energy debt to our planet.

How much longer before this is acknowledged and put right the only way possible, by declaring it as such, and beginning to pay it back down, is the real question, I think.

Not much longer before it could be too late.

Btw, a further common mis-perception of a solar powered Earth is the belief that batteries are needed in the grid.

Why should we think that, given we have superconducting transmission technology to connect all together, and the sun is always shining on half of the world?