Helium Cache to the Bank?

Helium Cache to the Bank?

Helium is important for MRI and MRI is important to literally see what’s wrong with people. Think about it before buying a helium filled balloon. I wrote more about the helium reserve here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChadHaney/posts/99SpR28xBme

So does this newly found cache of helium mean we can resume wasting helium in balloons? I think it depends how fast and how economically they can start collecting the helium.

ETA

It’s worth emphasizing that we can’t make helium and it’s so light that it escapes earth’s atmosphere. Unlike nitrogen, for liquid nitrogen, we can’t collect and liquefy it from our air.

http://www.livescience.com/55204-huge-cache-of-ancient-helium-discovered.html

4 thoughts on “Helium Cache to the Bank?”

  1. vicky tran, helium is useful in science. So we don’t necessarily want to simply preserve it. Conserve is probably a better and is part of the message I’m trying to convey.

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