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>What I'm more worried about is a replacement for liquid helium in cooling. CERN depends on cryogenics for keeping superconducting magnets cold. The LHC uses j
by iSnow 7y ago
>What I'm more worried about is a replacement for liquid helium in cooling. CERN depends on cryogenics for keeping superconducting magnets cold.
The LHC uses just roughly 100t He (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Design), I don't resplenishing this going to be a problem, even if He becomes more scarce.
- willis936 7y agoThere has been a massive push in scientific communities to recycle helium used in cryogenics. It’s happened in the past ten years from market forces. In truth, if we’re frugal, we don’t need very much helium.