webghost0101 comments on Anon ponders modern magic

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Technically correct but just cause there are minerals in the ground doesn’t mean they can be extracted.

Maybe i am wrong but i keep hearing about silicon being harder to come, i suppose op was specifically speaking about the silicon usable for computing.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

silicon being harder to come

interesting silicone usually makes it easier for me to come

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[–] TheChurn@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

The form of silicon used in semiconductor manufacturing, specific formations of sand, is becoming harder to source from the environment. Silicon the element is incredibly abundant - the vast majority of all rocks on Earth are silicates - so there isn't a risk that we run out of silicon itself any time soon.

What may happen, in several decades, is an increase in price due to the need to process more abundant rocks to obtain pure silicon.

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