University of New South Wales postdoctoral research fellow Dr Moonyong Kim has said that while certain aspects of solar panel technology still needed to be ironed out, the industry still represented a boon to sustainable energy in Australia. Speaking at the Critical Minerals & Energy Investment Conference in Perth this week, Dr Kim told investors that in order to comprehensively achieve decarbonisation, the world would need 10 terrawatts (TW) of photovoltaic (PV) technology by 2030, or 2TW per year. But the growing move towards this technology would involve a significant use of the minerals an…