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$100K is a lot of money for some experimental low temperature labs. The other issue is that vibrations from compressor units can interfere with sensitive experi
by s1dev 6y ago
$100K is a lot of money for some experimental low temperature labs. The other issue is that vibrations from compressor units can interfere with sensitive experiments like scanning tunneling microscopy. Helium is expensive enough as it is that I think most labs would like to recycle it, but there are drawbacks.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIf helium is a precious resource (it is), we should use federal dollars to incentive better management and recycling of it by academic and research users. Very similar to how we incentivize energy efficiency with grants and tax policy.
- bhk 6y agoThe price of helium should be the incentive.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIt should be, but the market is distorted :/