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Re:Left-wing party opposed to rare earth mining project wins... by eloff on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:25AM (#26724551)
And in wind turbines (for the same reason). What about solar panels? Maybe not the cheaper ones?
Re:Left-wing party opposed to rare earth mining project wins... by pjc50 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:52AM (#26724942)
Conventional monocrystalline or polycrystalline panels do not use rare elements. Slightly fuzzy diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Structure-of-monocrystal...

Cadmium-telluride and CIGS cells use more rare elements, but they have been overtaken by the ongoing fall in cost of conventional silicon wafer cells, so you won't see too many of them being installed at the moment.

(The failure of CdTe is probably for the best given how spectacularly poisonous both of those metals are)