Helium Qatar US/Israel war
#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://cen.acs.org/business/specialty-chemicals/Iran-war-threatens-global-helium/104/web/2026/03
