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AFAIK Natural gas extraction produces a whole lot of helium. We just have to bother to capture it. (Please correct me if I’m wrong. I read it on slashdot decad

• Accujack 4y ago
  You're correct. There's no shortage of helium, at least for several hundred years. There just aren't many gas wells capturing it because it didn't make any economic sense to do that until recently.
• jabl 4y ago
  That is true, but OTOH if we're going to address climate change we can't keep on extracting natural gas like there's no tomorrow. So helium could become a pretty expensive thing.
• nraynaud 4y ago
  It's right, and it's not expensive enough to have large scale recycling and conservation measures (some scientific labs have recycing systems already, but they are not the ones wasting the most). It's one of those cases where there is a shortage "at that price".