Thanks for a positive story on solar, but in the above statement you use the word "Would", when we know already panels do not lock us into fossil fuels at all, we are already basking in the benefits in many places, such that fossil fuels even went negatively priced, if you remember, and the environment showed the only spike of recovery ever seen, whilst the dollar was being issued at the rate of $4Tn per month, and the value of the dollar itself went up.
Conventional economists could not explain how or why the dollar went up, not down, but Kardashev Money explains it all, even showing mathematical proof.
Banks probably don't want you to know about that.
Further, reversible hydrogen backup technology removes the need for harmful backup batteries, and even the need for batteries in all EVs, but the battery manufacturers employing kids in the Congo probably don't want you to know about that either.
The thing that locks us into extraction is money issued on promises to pay, which is all fiat money, because those are promises to extract, whilst solar is not something we extracted, it is donated to us.
Now we are running out of ways to extract, whilst solar (Using panels!) continues to ramp up, and no money is issued on the valuable product received, the value of money is disappearing, hence we see inflation, which is outstripping all ambitions of projects lasting more than a year or so, so nature really is forcing our hand. Nuclear projects are having the carpet pulled out from under them, by nature.
But the banks probably don't want you to know about that either.
So we'll continue to see more and more inflation for now, and folk being made to go with nothing, until the money issuers accept this reality, that the system of money issued as debt has met its end, and there is only one remaining way to issue money which has any value left at all, and that is to issue it honestly and authentically reflecting the solar product received, and put to use by us.