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Well at least for now we are not running out of Helium: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-06-28-huge-helium-discovery-life-saving-find
by jsilence 7y ago
Well at least for now we are not running out of Helium: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-06-28-huge-helium-discovery-life-saving-find
- input_sh 7y agoBut... we are. We're using it at a rate that's faster than the rate it is produced in. Just because we find a pocket or two that we haven't found before doesn't mean that the problem is gone. The new pockets are usually more difficult to extract helium from, and storing it and transporting it is a painful process to say the least. The problem won't be truly gone until we find a way to gather it from outer space.
- zihotki 7y agoBut still there is only a finite amount of it and with each use it disappears into the sky. It's not sustainable and not renewable so it's use must be limited and controlled if we want to leave some of it for future humanity.