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To: pepsionice

Helium rises and is lost into space. It’s one of the few resources that we will probably run out of that can’t be replaced.


8 posted on 07/01/2015 6:30:56 AM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet into FlixNet)
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To: palmer

Actually, as long as alpha-particle radioactive decay keeps happening, there will keep being new Helium produced by the Earth. It’s all a question of whether or not we can practically obtain the natural gas from the reserves, which we process and separate the Helium from.


16 posted on 07/01/2015 6:34:44 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: palmer
Helium is mostly produced by radioactive alpha decay. Add 2 electrons to an alpha particle and you have helium.

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19 posted on 07/01/2015 6:38:15 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: palmer

Can’t be replaced? Hardly. Send a cargo ship to the sun to capture its exosphere and bring it home. Nothing to it.


22 posted on 07/01/2015 6:41:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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