@sellathechemist@mastodon.social
Post #856671
2026-03-29 12:05 UTC
Replies (9)
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@f4grx@chaos.social 2026-03-29 12:11
@sellathechemist the CEA was recovering spent helium in their plants at Grenoble in the Alps, in 2004. Why was this not done more globally?
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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-29 12:52
@sellathechemist I may have missed it ... doing other things, recording the last 10 minutes, but I may have missed it. I'm aware of the problem and it quietly makes me very angry every time I think of it. Nothing I can do ... I try not to let it upset me.
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@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot 2026-03-29 13:03
@sellathechemist ... Indeed! The US particularly has a recent history of stupid decisions about helium - eg Helium Privatization Act of 1996, and most of their actions since... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-29 15:00
@sellathechemist all most people will hear is that the mylar balloons for their fucking brat's birthday party will cost a lot more. Fuck mylar balloons.
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@Ichinin@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 15:11
@sellathechemist I wonder how much Helium is wasted because people want to talk funny.
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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-29 16:08
@sellathechemist “Limited but cheap”, one wonders how we got here.
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@johndgriffith@twit.social 2026-03-29 16:31
@sellathechemist This is a link to a different discussion on the same topic https://pca.st/episode/558d7abf-c938-45f7-b14a-a5245bb64da4
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@hicksy2@mastodon.green 2026-03-29 19:39
@sellathechemist low Helium consumption instruments exist: https://www.iceoxford.com/
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@nblr@chaos.social 2026-04-02 00:22
@sellathechemist Helium being a finite ressource, helium being used for balloons, this never felt reasonable in my brain, market economy somehow never made sense to me on that level. Maybe… it just does not, in general.