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by crote 81 days ago
On the other hand: how flexible is the demand?

A hospital isn't going to shut down because their MRI's new helium load is getting more expensive - they'll pay a fortune for it. For a lot of other applications there are no suitable alternatives either.

The real question then becomes: what's going to happen when there's a 1000x price increase?