Add to that all the batteries that have to be built for backup for when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow.
And also all the towers they have to build to hang those lines.
Half of the earth is going to be one huge mine.
Instead of physical batteries, why not build pump storage facilities where water is pumped and stored at significant elevation in man-made reservoirs by the wind and solar running the pumps upward and released through turbines to provide the energy when needed? We have a huge one by Ludington, MI on Michigan’s West coastline with Lake Michigan.