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Price Shocks May Be Coming For Helium Supply
Ars has an update on the potential helium shortage we discussed a couple of years back. A Nobel laureate, Robert Richardson, argues for ending market distortions that are resulting in an artificially low price for helium, which is accelerating the projected exhaustion of the supply. "Richardson's solution is to rework the management of the Bush Dome [so named for reasons that have nothing to do with the politician] stockpile once again, this time with the aim of ensuring that helium's price rises to reflect its scarcity. In practical terms, he said that it would be better to deal with a 20-fold increase in price now than to deal with it increasing by a factor of thousands in a few decades when supply issues start to become critical. But he also made an emotional appeal, stating, 'One generation doesn't have the right to determine the availability forever.'"
This isn't an issue... all we need to do is send some blimps up to collect all of the balloons that kids accidentally let fly away.
In the long term disney characters will finally be out of copyright and will no longer be popular. So we won't need helium to make those zany character voices. Better to use it now while the characters are still popular. That is the only use for helium right? Science? Pah, what's that!?
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It's as if a million chipmunk voices suddenly cried out in terror and turned into baritones.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
I RTFA and am pleased to report that it was *really* light reading! ;)
The moon? There's lots more in the sun. Just stick a big straw into it and drain it out. Just don't let BP do it. They'll blow out a big hole and the thing will fly off like a balloon.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
Mom, why is dad such a boring, sanctimonious pain in the ass?
1. Bottle helium ...
2.
3. Profit
FUCK YEAH.
In the future, we'll do the trick with sulfur hexafluoride instead.
At least until enough kids suffocate.
Only if you don't mind the highly exothermic reaction between the two gases causing the human to explode. Oh, the Hindenburgity!
I have no problem seeing BP sent into the sun
You named your ass Insightful? Or is it really the source of your insight? That would explain many of the Anonymous Coward postings I've seen
over the years.
"Ladies & Germs, I'd like to introduce Insightful, my ass"
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
But you have to harvest it from a giant fusion reactor with the biggest gravity well in the solar system
Now, that's just freaky. I mean, not that I believe all the religious clap-trap, but my cousin is certain that "God is everywhere", and is now rather painfully confused as to what could possibly be more everywhere than the sky fairy he refers to as "He".
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Doesn't the Lollipop Guild have representatives to handle this kind of financial crisis?
You never expect irony, do you?
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