>Solar panels and wind turbines cannot provide the energy to deploy new panels or turbines Yes they can. If you want to wait a few hundred years to bootstrap

>Solar panels and wind turbines cannot provide the energy to deploy new panels or turbines Yes they can. If you want to wait a few hundred years to bootstrap the entire industry just using wind and solar energy (once we have the first solar panel) then we can do that. It makes more sense to get it done quicker though.