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Google, Amazon and Facebook Are Fighting Over Falling Helium Supplies
OilPrice.com ^ | 2/17/2022 | Michael Scott

Posted on 02/18/2022 10:57:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods

A dramatic – and potentially lucrative – scenario may now be unfolding in the markets for one of the most overlooked natural resources on the planet.

This essential commodity – helium – is used to drive innovation for many of the world’s biggest tech companies...and it is needed to help manufacture everything from medical equipment to computer chips.

Yet despite its critical importance – and growing demand – a potentially crippling lack of supply has put us on the brink of a critical shortage.

This supply-demand imbalance has triggered a fast-moving growth opportunity for any exploration and development company that can show potential for significant new helium discovery.

(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...


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As predicted some time back...
1 posted on 02/18/2022 10:57:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: SaxxonWoods
Helium is sourced from oil wells (mostly) and results from radioactive decay.

Didn't the US have a Helium Strategic Reserve at some point?
2 posted on 02/18/2022 11:05:29 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: SaxxonWoods
Step 1: hijack the Goodyear blimp
Step 2: ?
Step 3: profit
3 posted on 02/18/2022 11:11:41 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: farming pharmer
Yes but it flew away.


4 posted on 02/18/2022 11:12:31 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: farming pharmer

We did

It was so the USA would always be able to fill their fleet of blimps in times of war.

Eventually someone figured out we didn’t have any blimps and congress got rid of it.


5 posted on 02/18/2022 11:13:05 AM PST by sloanrb
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To: SaxxonWoods

Why do those companies need helium?


6 posted on 02/18/2022 11:22:55 AM PST by GingisK
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To: SaxxonWoods

Uh oh. Turns out Helium is stripped out of natural gas. Less natural gas production means less Helium production. Wonder how the Climate Change crowd’s gonna reconcile this unfortunate turn of events.


7 posted on 02/18/2022 11:23:14 AM PST by technically right
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To: GingisK

I work at a chemical refinery. We make fatty acids and glycerin and a few other things. We use a ton of helium. The price has climbed significantly in the last 3 years.


8 posted on 02/18/2022 11:27:03 AM PST by strider44
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To: SaxxonWoods

Sometime in the future we will harvest it from fusion reactors.


9 posted on 02/18/2022 11:33:57 AM PST by enduserindy (Yep. )
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To: enduserindy

can we harvest it from cold fusion? Has anyone seen kevmo?


10 posted on 02/18/2022 11:39:48 AM PST by vmpolesov
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To: SaxxonWoods

Helium is the 2nd most abundant element in the universe. Unfortunately not much is found in rocky planets.


11 posted on 02/18/2022 11:41:31 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SaxxonWoods

Helium is mined where natural gas and other petroleum reserves are found.


12 posted on 02/18/2022 11:52:28 AM PST by JoanSmith
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To: GingisK

“Why do those companies need helium?”

I’m guessing for its cooling capacity.


13 posted on 02/18/2022 11:54:14 AM PST by JoanSmith
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To: SaxxonWoods

((high-pitched voice)) I didn’t take any. Honest.


14 posted on 02/18/2022 11:58:39 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: sloanrb
Eventually someone figured out we didn't have any blimps and congress got rid of it.

That's unfortunate, because it's still a strategically important substance.

Once it hits the top of the atmosphere, it's gone forever.
15 posted on 02/18/2022 12:17:17 PM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: JoanSmith

Also inert atmosphere.


16 posted on 02/18/2022 12:17:51 PM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: GingisK

So they can talk funny at company Christmas parties.


17 posted on 02/18/2022 12:18:50 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: vmpolesov

I’m not sure on cold but the result of fusing hydrogen is helium.


18 posted on 02/18/2022 12:26:15 PM PST by enduserindy (Yep. )
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To: JoanSmith

“Helium is mined where natural gas and other petroleum reserves are found.”

Wikipedia says natural gas can contain up to 7% helium.


19 posted on 02/18/2022 12:42:19 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: wgmalabama
Also inert atmosphere.

Like Argon (constitutes 1% of the Earth's atmosphere) and Neon (and Xenon and Radon).

Regards,

20 posted on 02/18/2022 1:36:16 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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