Maurice Forgeng
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Maurice Forgeng
@MForgeng
Freier Journalist (Ressort: Energie und Klima)








The equinox has arrived. This is one of the few times each year when Earth's axial tilt neither favors the Northern nor the Southern Hemisphere. As a result, nearly every location on the planet experiences almost exactly equal amounts of daylight and darkness—roughly 12 hours of each—creating a moment of near-perfect global balance.







Alles gesagt. Beste Rede zur Notwendigkeit von Kernenergie und Abbau von Dogmatismus @SaskiaLudwigCDU 👏



🚨🚨🚨 ONE ATTACK IN THE MIDDLE EAST JUST PUT THE ENTIRE TECH INDUSTRY ON LIFE SUPPORT 🚨🚨🚨 Iran bombed Qatar's helium plant. 33% of global supply is gone. Overnight. Here's who's bleeding right now: 🇰🇷 South Korea — 64.7% of all helium imported from Qatar ($226.9M). Samsung and SK Hynix fabs are on a countdown clock. 🇹🇼 Taiwan — home to TSMC, makes 18% of global chips. Said "monitoring situation." Translation: quietly panicking. 🇯🇵 Japan — major chip fab and MRI manufacturer hub. First to run out if Qatar outage extends beyond 60 days. 🇸🇬 Singapore — regional semiconductor hub. Heavy Qatar helium dependency flagged by Scientific American. 🇮🇳 India — imported helium from Qatar for thousands of hospital MRI machines. MRI costs already rising, scan delays starting. 🇩🇪 Germany — hosts Linde HQ, major industrial gas distributor. Helium spot prices up 100%. Linde and Air Liquide rationing supply. 🇺🇸 United States — federal helium reserve running down for years. US chip fabs still exposed. HP, Dell, Lenovo warned enterprise buyers: 15-20% price hike incoming. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — NHS hospitals with MRI machines facing supply tightness. No domestic helium production. 🇫🇷 France — Air Liquide headquartered here but cannot produce new helium. Distribution-only country. 🇨🇳 China — imports helium for chip fabs and MRI. Could accelerate its own helium exploration in Siberian region. Strategic play. 🇦🇺 Australia — Exporter, one of few alternatives. Helium production from Amadeus Basin, but NOT enough to fill Qatar's gap. 🇶🇦 Qatar — the source. Offline since March 2. CEO says 14% of capacity PERMANENTLY damaged for up to 5 years. 12 countries exposed. 33% of global supply gone overnight. Zero substitutes. No restart timeline. This isn't just a war story. Your next laptop, your next MRI scan, your next phone — all of it runs on helium you didn't even know existed. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 X is hiding this. Follow + RT before it disappears. 🔥

📽️ There have been many scary, unnerving days in this latest Gulf war. But the past 24 hours was particularly bad. Why? Because both sides are now causing lasting damage to the world economy's life support system. Our latest primer on the econ consequences of this war👇













