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It wasn't. It was injected into the porous rock at the Bush Dome Reservoir [1], which acted as a natural container of helium. The strategic helium reserve was "
by atombender 6mo ago
It wasn't. It was injected into the porous rock at the Bush Dome Reservoir [1], which acted as a natural container of helium. The strategic helium reserve was "expensive" because buying helium for storage was funded by treasury debt, but it was expensive purely only on paper.
[1] https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bush-dome-reservoir-and-cliffside-field-terminal https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bush-dome-reserv...
- vel0city 6mo agoThe Bush Dome Reservoir is a giant underground formation. So yes, it's being stored underground.
- atombender 6mo agoI was replying to the last question: "Why would it be expensive?"
- NetMageSCW 6mo agoThe question wasn’t why filling it would be expensive, but why maintaining it once stored would be considered expensive.
- atombender 6mo agoI answered that. It wasn't expensive. Building up the stockpile was expensive (but only on paper; financed via treasury debt), but once stored, it required very little maintenance because it was all held underground in porous rock. The only real expense was maintaining the wells.