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  1. September 29, 2010, 07:18 AM #1
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    Default We're running out of Helium

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu...-2010/gas-hole

    They didnt say when the helium would run out but if its within our life time than imagine the investment oportunitities there are in hoarding safeguarding purchasing this stuff.
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    Quote Originally Posted by MathiasOfAthens View Post
    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu...-2010/gas-hole

    They didnt say when the helium would run out but if its within our life time than imagine the investment oportunitities there are in hoarding safeguarding purchasing this stuff.
    Storing Helium is very hard, I worked in a factory with a helium tank and we lost 2-15 % of the helium each week due to diffusion through the metal container.
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  3. September 29, 2010, 10:36 AM #3
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    Humans will just figure out how to make more.
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  4. September 29, 2010, 10:47 AM #4
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    Ah well that settles that then, thanks Adar.


    I suppose we can mine the stuff in the future from some asteroid or planet.
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  5. September 29, 2010, 11:09 AM #5
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    or we could finally find a way to create nuclear fusion. then we'll have a near infinite source of helium.

    mining asteroids is very expensive and for the moment far beyond our reach. but the technology to fuse two atoms of hidrogen into an atom of helium will be discovered within our lifetime.


    also breaking up lithium is another good source of helium.
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  6. October 05, 2010, 04:05 PM #6
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    how can the earth run out of an element that doesn't undergo large scale nuclear reactions and isn't lost to space?

    Quote Originally Posted by florin87 View Post
    or we could finally find a way to create nuclear fusion. then we'll have a near infinite source of helium.
    fusion is already possible and done regularly.

    it just can't prduce electricity yet.
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

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    how can the earth run out of an element that doesn't undergo large scale nuclear reactions and isn't lost to space?
    Because it is lost to space. Amount of helium in our atmosphere is extremely minute, because it tends to go up and never come down. Instead leaving for space.

    This is because it is so light and inert. Being light it goes up, being inert it fails to combine to heavy molecules which would stay.

    All helium released into atmosphere is lost to humanity and only notable source is from separation from natural gas.


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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    So it is as simple as the daily show corespondent said it is. Add an e to H (Hydrogen).
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    Default Re: Were running out of Helium

    Quote Originally Posted by MathiasOfAthens View Post
    So it is as simple as the daily show corespondent said it is. Add an e to H (Hydrogen).

    That wouldn't work, it would still have the wrong number of protons.
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    Default Re: We're running out of Helium

    Isn't there a bunch of Helium isotopes on the moon? Closer than an asteroid.
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    NO MORE PARTY BALLOONS?
    NOOOOOO NO MORE PARTY BALLOONS!
    OH MY GOD NO MORE PARTY BALLOONS HOW WILL WE LIVE?
    Why is helium so hard to store? Is it just it's too small to contain effectively?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Theseus1234 View Post
    NO MORE PARTY BALLOONS?
    NOOOOOO NO MORE PARTY BALLOONS!
    OH MY GOD NO MORE PARTY BALLOONS HOW WILL WE LIVE?
    Why is helium so hard to store? Is it just it's too small to contain effectively?


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  13. October 05, 2010, 06:59 PM #13
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    Default Re: We're running out of Helium

    Yeah honestly I have to wonder, will we be really that badly off without helium? I mean its a shame, but come on. I know there commercial cooling purposes, but there are alternatives for it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by roy34543 View Post
    Yeah honestly I have to wonder, will we be really that badly off without helium? I mean its a shame, but come on. I know there commercial cooling purposes, but there are alternatives for it.
    Seriously, not only will Hydrogen also transform your voice into a high-pitched squeal...you can blow fireballs!
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