To: Steely Tom
Every couple of years the MSM runs one of these “we’re running out of helium” stories.
The law passed to shut down the he wells was passed by Republican House and Republican Senate, signed by BJ Clinton.
It was a bad idea then and it still is a bad idea. It is really too expensive to filter it out of atmosphere.
15 posted on
05/18/2019 12:59:02 PM PDT by
buffaloguy
(MSM: Wind up dolls of the DNC.)
To: buffaloguy
There is no helium in the atmosphere. Anything not trapped at the well-cap goes rapidly off into space.
23 posted on
05/18/2019 1:07:08 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
("And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born.")
To: buffaloguy
The law passed to shut down the he wells was passed by Republican House and Republican Senate, signed by BJ Clinton. It was a bad idea then and it still is a bad idea. It is really too expensive to filter it out of atmosphere.
Helium can't realistically be filtered out of the atmosphere: Condenses too cold a temperature to cryo separate effectively, too little volume and too small to filter atomically or chemically. Chemically inert = no reactions.
Lighter than air, it diffuses “up” to space.
Could mine in Jupiter or Saturn or a moon of them maybe?
34 posted on
05/18/2019 1:34:51 PM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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