If this wasn’t just another taxpayer boondoggle, and the people pushing it thought it was a real threat - they would ramp up domestic production of solar and battery and pay to put them on top of every home and industrial building in the country. Like Eisenhower with the federal highway plan. He saw it as necessary for economic growth as well as for national emergency to move people and military quickly around the country as needed.
But it’s not that. It’s the biggest con government(s) have pulled yet to extract money from the poor and middle class and give it to the wealthy and well connected.