We Are Still Near Peak Helium
Posted on August 24th, 2010 by MoverMike
In January of 2008 in Peak Helium I posted about a coming shortage of Helium. here we are two and half years later it’s once again in the news. The gas is used not just for balloons but for cooling metals that produce superconductivity or in processes that throw off a lot of heat. It is used to make flat-panel TVs, semiconductors, optical fibers and medical MRIs, and it toughens industrial welds. NASA uses a full train-car load to pressurize a liquid fuel rocket.
Now scientists say the U.S. will be out by 2015 and the world in 25 to 30 years.
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