@sickburnbro Did you look at the chart from the source? they DID include ALL material costs for upstream energy collection but ONLY for the renewables. Using this chart for the purpose that the tweet did is completely nonsensical.

We had this discussion about energy in, energy out for solar before. Solar has a positive EROI and the figure is not that bad

>the purity of silicon needed for solar. The cost in energy to produce that silicon
A 400 Wp solar panel weighs about 20 kg. Let's pretend ALL of it is pure silicon. As per your link, the energy needed would only be 220 kWh. A 400 Wp solar panel will produce this amount of electricity in 55 days.