THIS IS AN AWESOME OUTSIDE THE BOX DISCOVERY!!! It will greatly affect The Environmentally Friendly Industries, can anybody say Solar Panels?
I am so happy, though it is just a short term solution, need to stop needing them all together, referencing the solar panels replacing rare earth metals with peanut shells.
Uh… they aren’t used in solar-panels, ttbomk.
They’re used in neodymium magnets.
They’re used in TIG-welding electrodes ( ceriated, etc. )
Without rare-earths, we’ve got no rare-earth magnets ( & hence no powerful permanent-magnet motors ) AND no TIG-welding ( except for the pure-tungsten ones, & the radioactive thoriated ones ).
You can’t stop needing specific elements, or categories-of-elements: chemistry doesn’t work that way, sorry.
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Sorry, but I heard the exact opposite, from other sources, I trust.
Just DuckDuckGoed using- Does solar panels use Rare Earth Metals? & found & read all on the first page some- https://green.org/2024/01/30/solar-energys-dependence-on-rare-earth-materials/,
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/11/28/are-rare-earths-used-in-solar-panels/,
https://seia.org/blog/how-important-are-rare-earth-elements-to-the-solar-and-storage-industry/,
Only the above link from The Solar Energy Industries Association, claims solar panels are free from Rare Earth Elements/Metals, but admits the converts & Etc. required devices for Solar Panels to work, use Rare Earth Elements/Metals.
https://www.stanfordmaterials.com/blog/major-applications-of-rare-earth-elements-in-renewable-energy.html
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https://palmetto.com/solar/minerals-in-solar-panels-and-solar-batteries