Spruce Pine NC: civilizational pain point?

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Maybe someone on this board who knows more about ultrapure quartz and silicon wafers than I do can put this into context.

If Helene took out Spruce Pine, is it really as bad as @FossilLocator suggests?

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Czochralski method - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method)

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