In 1996 the government passed a law stating the U.S. National Helium Reserve in Amarillo, Texas
(the worlds biggest store of helium)
must be sold off by 2015 to recoup the price of installing it.
The U.S. stores 80% of the worlds helium and the un-renewable gas is being sold at increasingly cheap prices, making it un-economical to recycle.
Once the helium reserves are gone, there will be no way to replace it.
This will spell disaster for hospitals, who use it to cool off MRI scanners.
The only way to recapture it would be through the decay of tritium
a radioactive hydrogen isotope, which the U.S stopped making in 1988.
Sorry Chipmunks impersonators & lawn chair pilots.
Jupiter here we come, as the planet is a "Gas Giant" 11 times the size of earth
and actually rains the stuff in abundance.
(the worlds biggest store of helium)
must be sold off by 2015 to recoup the price of installing it.
The U.S. stores 80% of the worlds helium and the un-renewable gas is being sold at increasingly cheap prices, making it un-economical to recycle.
Once the helium reserves are gone, there will be no way to replace it.
This will spell disaster for hospitals, who use it to cool off MRI scanners.
The only way to recapture it would be through the decay of tritium
a radioactive hydrogen isotope, which the U.S stopped making in 1988.
Sorry Chipmunks impersonators & lawn chair pilots.
Jupiter here we come, as the planet is a "Gas Giant" 11 times the size of earth
and actually rains the stuff in abundance.
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