Do you have sources as to why they are lies? I'm not doubting you, but simply saying they're lies is just as disingenuous as the people making the statements in the first place
However, for your convenience, I used google to search for "are solar panels net energy positive" and found this as the 2nd link:
https://www.solarmelon.com/faqs/solar-panels-use-energy-manu...
This contains a link to at least one peer-reviewed paper:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3038824
I can almost guarantee that a similar process will elicit similar answers for every other point in the GP's list.
I assume people here will disagree but it's that exact stark difference in perspective that's so interesting to me
This is "great" for televised debates but this is kind of passive aggressive for the tone people prefer here. We're talking to people here. More directly than a formal debate.
Someone participating earnestly knows they are capable of either politely expressing interest and asking for sources, or as another mentioned: typing and clicking all by themselves.
I didn't say that, but I do think that providing links is helpful.
paraphrase: the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves
claim: I didn't say that
I confess that I can't quite see the difference.
Very early solar cells, the type used to power calculators and the like, may have been so inefficient that their lifetime power generation didn't offset the energy cost of their production. That doesn't matter because the scale is tiny, and the portability and the elimination of batteries is the point, not net energy return.
Someone probably got it in their mind that "solar can't work" back in the 1960s or 70s based on this, and refused to budge half a century later when solar is the cheapest form of grid-scale energy.
[1] This is actually a great way to estimate the total energy that went into a product. It must be less than the wholesale price (or cost-of-manufacture), otherwise at least one profit-motived organisation must be selling the product, its raw materials, or the energy inputs below cost and losing money on purpose. Only in rare cases like gov subsidies, state-owned corporations, etc... is this rule violated.