The point is that in the end it is a free lunch.
Its many free lunches.
Free lunches forever, for all humans, and all of nature as usual.
To create food more or less directly from solar independently of the conventional food chain, we start by creating hydrogen, then we convert that to "Solein".
To create materials from solar we can use similar processes of hydrogen to create Plastics. This is also known technology but we've never moved to it because of fossil fuels. It's perceived to be more expensive and pointless, because again we can't get it into our heads that the energy supplying it is for free, and actually creates when we use it. And mainstream I don't think had done the research to show all the byproducts from it are not pollution but things beneficial to life.
I covered that in the energy polarity multiplier story.
Everything is for free in nature because energy is transferred to all needing it, for free. It's only us using energy to enslave one another by starving one another of the energy we each need to reach our full potential. We live enetgy stunted lives, and we never realised it, until now.
Free energy makes everything for free.
The sun asks nothing in return for it.
The expense or effort of starting to use it, I mean really use it, including monetising it, is reduced to zero in time because that outlay is finite whilst the returns are infinite.
The lifetime of a panel doesn't matter if we have free energy to create more.
I covered this in the money fuel tree story.