file.newsgroup.med.58925 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Helium non-renewable?? (was: Too many MRIs?)
In article [email protected] (Russell Turpin) writes:
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>How does the helium get consumed? I would have thought that failure
>to contain it perfectly would result in its evaporation .. back into
>the atmosphere. Sounds like a cycle to me. Obviously, it takes
>energy to run the cycle, but I seriously doubt that helium consumption
>is a resource issue.
>
It's not a cycle. Free helium will escape from the atmosphere due to
its high velocity. It won't be practical to recover it. It has
to be mined.
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