CN Reports Indicate Massive Fire Breaks Out At Chinese Polysilicon Plant

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Reports Indicate Massive Fire Breaks Out At Chinese Polysilicon Plant​

Twitter handle "Insider Paper" reports a massive fire has erupted at a polysilicon plant in China.

According to the report, "an explosion" occurred at a polysilicon plant in Shihezi City, Xinjiang, China. Polysilicon, or poly-Si, is used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industries.

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1402335296360955912

Today massive fire after an explosion in a polysilicon (highly toxic) chemical plant in Shihezi City, Xinjiang, China

Another Twitter account, called "Today_China," also says the explosion occurred at a polysilicon plant in Shihezi on June 8 around noon.

https://twitter.com/Today__China/status/1402279552857128964

6月8日中午，新疆石河子市一化工厂发生爆炸。生产多晶硅（毒性大）

Google Translate: At noon on June 8, an explosion occurred in a chemical plant in Shihezi City, Xinjiang. Production of polysilicon (highly toxic)

Here's another video of the fire.

https://twitter.com/HIND_patriot/status/1402328903725633539

At noon on June 8, an explosion occurred in a chemical plant in Shihezi City, Xinjiang. Production of polysilicon (highly toxic) #china #Xinjiang

This report is so far unconfirmed by major western media outlets and is developing... But if confirmed, this could have severe implications for the global semiconductor industry, which is already in a terrible shortage.

 

[Coolio55]

I wonder how long software and computer game companies will produce shit most people can't run?
Consideration for the low end market has completely disappeared.

 

[Billy Beer]

Look at all of that pollution. The West needs to stop killing the planet.

is used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industries.

Good thing there isn't a component shortage going on because those companies really need those raw materials...ohh wait.

 

[John McAfee]

Sweet, never gonna get a new video card at this rate. Neat.

 

[frozenrunner]

I wonder how long software and computer game companies will produce shit most people can't run?
Consideration for the low end market has completely disappeared.

Play indie games.

 

[Joe Swanson]

I wonder how long software and computer game companies will produce shit most people can't run?
Consideration for the low end market has completely disappeared.

That bubble will burst sooner or later

 

[Coolio55]

Play indie games.

That used to work back in 2013 when everything ran on XP but now every indie is (poorly) using super large engines for simple tasks. Sometimes they know how to avoid wasting resources though...
My method of attack is "play old games" be it old PC games or emulators.

 

[Dead Memes]

I physically felt my GPU appreciating while reading that.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Cool, The West deserves this for letting China be our primary source for this shit.

 

[Meat Target]

In his cell at Florence, Uncle Ted sits giggling.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

If an Nvidia factory is not yet on fire, it will be - Confusedsus.

 

[kcbbq]

Polysilicon is highly toxic? What? It's just silicon grown with the crystals highly randomized. It just basically makes the normally insulating silicon into a conductor. It's no more toxic than any other silicon.

 

[Lone MacReady]

That bubble will burst sooner or later

Especially in Silver, everything from the chips in the Zog Big tech apparatus to the crystals in your coof mask to the missiles in our warships. So much tech requires Silver and as people buy it up for financial protection (as they are now), inventory will stress and collapse. Even the tyrants are coping to it recently, they have no choice.

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[whatever I feel like]

That bubble will burst sooner or later

You are lucky optimism ratings don't exist here.

 

[thx1138]

Polysilicon is highly toxic? What? It's just silicon grown with the crystals highly randomized. It just basically makes the normally insulating silicon into a conductor. It's no more toxic than any other silicon.

Trust me, if it can be made toxic, the Chinese have figured out how to, and have done so.

 

[Milkis]

Everyone in this thread were retarded, microprocessors are made of monocrystalline silicon, not polysilicon. Solar panels are made of polysilicon

 

[Lord Neeba]

Polysilicon is highly toxic? What? It's just silicon grown with the crystals highly randomized. It just basically makes the normally insulating silicon into a conductor. It's no more toxic than any other silicon.

Not a chemist, but plenty of things become toxic when set on fire and breathed into your lungs.

 

[MadStan]

Not a chemist, but plenty of things become toxic when set on fire and breathed into your lungs.

How about we just congratulate Milkis for knowing his shit, while all the rest of us were ignorant as all fuck on the subject.

Give kudos. Give love.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Everyone in this thread were retarded, microprocessors are made of monocrystalline silicon, not polysilicon. Solar panels are made of polysilicon

Since this factory burned down, I'm going to have to start making my solar panels out of RTX 3080 cores. Hope that's not a problem for anyone.

 

[kcbbq]

Not a chemist, but plenty of things become toxic when set on fire and breathed into your lungs.

Maybe. You can make silicon explosive, though. Really explosive. Reeeeeeeaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy explosive. Silane gas, SiO (basicly glass with one oxygen atom yeeted off) is pyrophoric - it spontaneously combusts at room temperature when exposed to air, and does so very aggressively. That's what the semiconductor industry uses to deposit poly and silicon oxides on wafers.

If you work in the industry you'll have heard stories about someone swapping gas bottles and mixing a full one up with the empty and getting blown across the room filling the area with fine sand.

This place creates tubes of poly by essentially pulling it out of a vat of molten silicon.

This place is in Xinjiang, so I assume the danger is usually workers going for a swim in the vats.