Bob Koure
Dec 11, 2022

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And that equipment in the Netherlands is dependent on semiconductor grade neon for the lasers - a major source up to now has been Ukraine (50+%).

China produces a lot of the rest, but as the process involves cryogenically freezing large volumes of atmosphere, it's quite energy intensive - neon's only 0.001818% of the atmosphere (by vol). China is spectacularly dependent on imported energy, so...

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Bob Koure
Bob Koure

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