What is your 1W of electricity going to do though? It going to power something, lets say a phone, so the phone needs building in a factory, with materials mined

What is your 1W of electricity going to do though? It going to power something, lets say a phone, so the phone needs building in a factory, with materials mined and pumped from the ground. Electricity use implies 'stuff'. Our production of 'stuff' is nowhere near being environmentally sound. So 1W hitting the desert floor is nothing like 1W hitting a solar panel.