#helium is a critical component in hard drives and many other high tech semiconductor components.
After Israel’s bombing of Iran’slargest gas fields, Iran retaliated by bombing Qatar’s critical refinery, wiping out 1/3 of the world’s helium reserves.
2026 will be an extremely bad year for tech, compounded by supply chain delivery problems and critical resource shortfalls.
https://cen.acs.org/business/specialty-chemicals/Iran-war-threatens-global-helium/104/web/2026/03
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/helium-prices-soar-qatar-lng-halt-exposes-fragile-supply-chain-2026-03-12/
https://cen.acs.org/business/specialty-chemicals/Iran-war-threatens-global-helium/104/web/2026/03
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