Helium is the only element on the planet that is a completely nonrenewable resource.
On Earth, helium is generated deep underground through the natural radioactive decay of elements such as uranium and thorium. "It takes many, many millennia to make the helium that's here on the Earth," says Sophia Hayes, a chemist at Washington University in St. Louis. The helium seeps up through the Earth's crust and gets trapped in pockets of natural gas, where it can be extracted. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775554343/the-world-is-constantly-running-out-of-helium-heres-why-it-matters#:~:text=Helium%20is%20the%20only%20element,such%20as%20uranium%20and%20thorium.
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That means oil is renewable. Peak oil just got cancelled.
You can create oil in a chemical process right now, it just requires more energy than you'd get back from burning the oil. The process could still be useful when electricity is 100% renewable to manufacture things like jet fuel where electrification is really really hard.
Can it not be said the same for any chemical reaction? H + H is He afterall
Fusion reactors would like a word!
This is part of the reason they want to mine the moon. Look into the lunar regolith and the concentration of H3 Also a Spallation reaction should also produce helium but it's energy intensive. Check out the SNS for how spallation is used in science today.
But you can buy it on dollar store
At the*
Just look for the clown on top the dollar store. He’ll give you a balloon
What is it used for except for the balloons?
LHC
MRI machines, or super cooling
When used in science and research contexts, they have a nearly 100% recovery rate of the helium used. The headline is correct, but it's not really a problem yet.
Genius should make water driven vehicles
don't need to be renewable when you're noble af
Time to go to the sun