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Chemical plant · China

Xinjiang & Inner Mongolia Polysilicon Cluster

The large majority of world solar-grade polysilicon capacity.

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Solar polysilicon migrated to wherever electricity is cheapest, because the Siemens process that makes it is essentially a way of storing electricity in purified silicon.

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Silicon

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Sand to Semiconductor

Ordinary quartz to a crystal so pure that one stray atom in a billion is a defect.

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Xinjiang & Inner Mongolia Polysilicon Cluster

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Sand to Semiconductor

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