Yes, it is wrong. Rare earth elements are not used in solar panels.

Understand, there's been this obnoxious effort by anti-renewable propagandists to spread the lie that PV is dirty because of rare earths. Shellenberger was spreading this falsehood. But it has no basis in reality.

vice is pro renewables, so that make no sense. Can you provide som evidence that rare earth metals are not needed?

Vice is just mistaken, not lying. I will charitably assume the same is true of you.

Are you REALLY asking me to prove a negative? Tell me, what purpose do you imagine rare earths serve in silicon PV cells? They are not used as dopants (that's boron and phosphorus). There are no magnets. The glass doesn't require them, nor do the structural metals.