Helene could massively disrupt the tech industry

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https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133462/hurricane-helene-quartz-microchips-solar-panels-spruce-pine

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Spruce Pine, A tiny town in North Carolina that’s just been devastated by hurricane Helene could end up severely disrupting the global supply chain for microchips and solar panels.

 

Amazing. High quality quartz is used to make crucibles used in manufacturing solar panels among other things.

 

https://gusherknob.com/our-quartz/ultra-high-purity-quartz/

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Western NC is simply a mess right now.

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1 hour ago, BuffaloBill said:

Western NC is simply a mess right now.

 

And another hurricane is coming.

[Sweats]

Helene disrupting things?.......is that the name my wife goes by now?