Posted on 01/28/2024 5:27:29 AM PST by davikkm
Interesting article. All this was already “baked in the cake.”
Helium’s Role for Semiconductor Production in the Digital Age
"Helium is one of the leading atmospheric gases used in the technology industry to manufacture fiber optic cables to run high-speed cable and Wi-Fi, improve storage capacities in computer hard drives, and to cool semiconductor chips used in smartphones, TVs, computers, tablets, and more. It is estimated that a single tank of helium gas can produce 10,000 hard drives, and according to Summit Source Funding, the revenue for semiconductor production in 2015 was $353 billion."
(SLIDE I think that the Boron/Hydrogen groups will get their first, but that is a layman's viewpoint. (Imagine fueling your reactor with something like a box of your mothers 20 mule team borax!))
First measurements of hydrogen-boron fusion in a magnetically confined fusion plasma
"Inventing fusion reactors that produce net energy is one thing, delivering it as a reliable, grid-ready source of electricity is another. By choosing to pursue hydrogen-boron as a fuel cycle, TAE has anticipated the true demands of commercial, daily use of fusion energy. Most fusion efforts around the world are focused on combining hydrogen isotopes deuterium-tritium (D-T) to use as fuel, and the donut-shaped tokamak machines commonly used in fusion concepts are limited to D-T fuel."
"Unlike those efforts, TAE's compact linear design uses an advanced accelerator beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) that is versatile, and can accommodate all available fusion fuel cycles, including p-B11, D-T and deuterium-helium-3 (D-He3 or D3He). This benefit will uniquely enable TAE to license its technology on the way to its ultimate goal of connecting the first hydrogen-boron fusion power plant to the grid in the 2030s." We Will See.... Slide over
Your blog is becoming as irrelevant as Jim Hoft’s Gateway Pundit.
The reserve is up for sale to the highest bidder. Not sold.
Conservatives used to insist on government liquidation of assets to the private sector.
Are you suggesting we sell off Sandia, Oak Ridge, Livermore?
It is a strategic loss.
Those are research facilities. They are doing work that can only be entrusted to government (spit).
They are not a reserve of a commodity.
Lotta foreigners be talkin’ funny.
So WTF am I supposed to with this warehouse of party balloons?
Yes, it was already baked in the cake.
But Biden knows how to unbake things when he wants to.
When you are hosting a (before) fire sale, the purpose is to sell as much as possible so you can skim as much as possible.
“A large new helium reserve has recently been found in northern Minnesota“
Helium has long been a critical resource in a lot of very important applications. I have never understood its use for balloons and such things.
It is also used in Lasers.
Pretty sure there is substantial use of Helium 3 and 4 in the Hadron Collider.
There are some U.S. Companies that are involved in Drilling for N.G. and extracting Helium and Hydrogen from the Gas.
(Desert Mountain Energy is one that comes to mind, not established, but ready to start extracting Helium in June.)
Maybe that explains the Minnesota patois “Oh yeah, real super there, yeah doncha know.”
A somewhat light hearted speak one might say.
The LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) part of the story:
The federal government has responded by trying to destroy Texas’s LNG industry, a major part of its economy.
And that move against LNG is a whole other story that’s just as important as the war on the border itself.
Destroying America’s and American companies’ hold on LNG has always been a core part of the Obama-Biden administration.
The O’Bidens were going to enter into an LNG partnership with China and Ukraine.
Biden’s goal was personal enrichment.
Obama’s goal — which Biden continues to put into effect, most notably now against Texas—was to “create reservoirs of economic power over the direction of industry, held by regulators and their privileged cronies.”
Part of why Democrats were so desperate to get Trump out of the White House was that his habit of enforcing the law and looking out for American interests disrupted this plan to control part of the world’s energy supply. (The linked article is extremely complex, although thankfully well-written, so I urge you to find the time to read it.)
In other words, even as he (or the brains behind him) is creating a crisis at the border, Biden is using that crisis to leverage the Obama policy regarding controlling LNG in a way that benefits China and other global players. (For now, Ukraine is no longer a player.)
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So no balloons for kids birthdays now?
Helium is the second most common element in the known universe. Jupiter has 30 Earth masses worth of Helium. Yet here we are with a demented crooked moron selling off the little bit that happens to be within our grasp.
It is about the pipelines in Texas.
Huge News Out of Minnesota: Exploratory Drill Has Discovered What Is Likely the Biggest Find in North America to Date (Helium)
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 3/2/2024 | George C. Upper III, The Western Journal
Posted on 3/3/2024, 12:04:45 AM by bitt
A new find of underground helium in Minnesota could turn out to be one of the largest in the world, Minneapolis’s WCCO-TV reported Thursday.
The drill site, just outside Babbitt in the northeastern part of the state, took about a month from initially breaking ground to get to a depth of 2,200 feet.
What it found there, Pulsar Helium CEO Thomas Abraham-James called “a dream.”...
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