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According to a quick Google, it's in the air at a concentration of 5ppm. For loose comparison sake, this is like pumping out an Olympic sized swimming pool to e
by VBprogrammer 6y ago
According to a quick Google, it's in the air at a concentration of 5ppm. For loose comparison sake, this is like pumping out an Olympic sized swimming pool to extract 10 litres of the good stuff. You certainly won't be doing that to fill children's balloons.
- coronadisaster 6y ago> this is like pumping out an Olympic sized swimming pool to extract 10 litres of the good stuff Sounds line gold mining... I'm sure they'd do it if needed for scientific purposes... or if they discover some health benefits to heliumtalk
- gliese1337 6y agoNote that the price of gold is much higher than the price of helium. If helium prices rise high enough, then yes, we will extract it from the atmosphere. And scientists will be sad because the they won't be able to afford as much of it anymore.
- coronadisaster 6y agoIt might be a lot cheaper to filter one cubic meter of air then it is one cubic meter of dirt... But either way, one day it could happen
- autodidactic 6y agoYeah this is completely misleading. How the fuck do you they think they got neon? The only way you can get it is from from the atmosphere. Helium occurs in similar concentrations and maintains the same level overtime due the radioactive decay. Actually it's probably increased due to natural gas extraction. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984GeCoA..48.1759O/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984GeCoA..48.1759O/abstra...