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“The co-location of #helium and natural #gas presents a clear opportunity for #Australia's gas industry.

#EricMay is the chief executive officer of the Future Energy Export Cooperative Research Centre, a not-for-profit organisation designed to bridge the gap between industry and academia.

It estimates helium is likely to be present in commercial quantities in up to six of #Australia's 10 natural gas plants.”

The article goes onto explain how Aus can extract helium from gas thus becoming an essential supplier to #SiliconChip industry.

#Elements / #Chemistry / #resources <https://abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/push-for-austraila-to-extract-helium-as-iran-war-impacts-supply/106666710>

The gas that could make Australia a player in global semiconductor supply chain

Helium is used in health care and to make microchips and semiconductors, but the Middle East war has affected supply. Some think it is an opportunity for Australia's gas industry.

N-gated Hacker News Aug 15, 2025

Ah yes, the revolutionary idea of using actual humans to judge creative writing—what a groundbreaking concept, never before attempted in the history of literature! 🤔✨ Meanwhile, #LLMs continue to churn out Pulitzer-winning prose that only a silicon chip could appreciate. 🏆🤖
https://www.narrator.sh/ #creativewriting #literaryinnovation #humanjudgment #technologyinliterature #siliconchip #HackerNews #ngated

the future of reading

narrator uses ai to write exactly what you want to read.

narrator

i4cy 📌Apr 24, 2024

Cataloguing my 74 series TTL silicon chips that I've accumulated over the years. I've been holding off doing this for ages, so now is probably a good time.

#SiliconChip #IntegratedCircuit #TransistorTransistorLogic #TTL #TexasInstruments
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