Purifying helium is relatively trivial. All helium comes from the same oil/gas wells, and is not renewable. Many sites that could capture helium choose not to b

Purifying helium is relatively trivial. All helium comes from the same oil/gas wells, and is not renewable. Many sites that could capture helium choose not to because it wouldnt make them enough money, so it floats out of the atmosphere and is lost forever. It's used for party balloons because the market is too short sighted to price it at its true value because of what naively appears to be a surplus. In 100 years people will be WTFing at our senseless waste.