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Category: Science News
Posted on: January 1, 2008 10:00 AM, by Greg Laden

Helium Running Out?;

Dwindling helium supply prompting concerns from PhysOrg.com
A looming helium shortage has some U.S. citizens concerned about the impact the gas' availability will have on parades and even research.

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"parades . . . and even research".

Ah, yes. It's those parades that are most important.

Posted by: Ahcuah | January 1, 2008 10:47 AM

I wondered if something like this might happen when congress was debating selling the strategic helium reserve back in the nineties. They were thinking about blimps and all I could think of at the time was that they were forgetting physics, superconductivity, medical imaging, and all manner of high tech coming as the Next Big Thing.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Posted by: decrepitoldfool | January 1, 2008 12:31 PM

The solution is simple, just take 4 Hydrogens combine them together and you get two Heliums.

Posted by: Jim | January 1, 2008 1:03 PM

This is actually a very big problem. Certain projects have been stalled due to lack of helium either because the suppliers have none to sell or because the cost of buying it is prohibitively expensive.

Posted by: Mrs Whatsit | January 1, 2008 1:19 PM

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