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Helium shortage?

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Not financially feasible at all. Better to look for it in natural gas reserves as a by-product of radioactive decay.

Is it feasible to buy a shit ton of the physical in a massive tank and then sit on it? Or do I have to buy radioactive isotopes?
 
Words fail me.

I am really trying to figure out what is going to stop the bull run... what are the risks here... where else can it be developed. Thought I read somewhere that it was abundant on the moon.

I know. I ask a lot of dumb questions!
 
@gourimoko what’s the viability and economic reality of getting this stuff off of the moon?

Like Bezos is talking about moon flights by 2024... is it feasible to get it off of the moon?

We're talking about different isotopes of helium here.

The helium shortage here on Earth is with respect to Helium-4; the helium that you hear about being mined on the Moon is Helium-3, a very rare stable isotope of helium which is useful in fusion research and has potential to be used in future fusion fuel cycles.

So to answer your question, (1) we're not exactly close to harvesting helium from the Moon; (2) we can't really address the helium (-4) shortage on Earth with lunar helium (-3) as that's not practical; (3) there's easier ways of getting helium than extracting it from extraterrestrial sources; (4) the economy for He-3 is completely different (and currently nascent) than for He-4.
 
We're talking about different isotopes of helium here.

The helium shortage here on Earth is with respect to Helium-4; the helium that you hear about being mined on the Moon is Helium-3, a very rare stable isotope of helium which is useful in fusion research and has potential to be used in future fusion fuel cycles.

So to answer your question, (1) we're not exactly close to harvesting helium from the Moon; (2) we can't really address the helium (-4) shortage on Earth with lunar helium (-3) as that's not practical; (3) there's easier ways of getting helium than extracting it from extraterrestrial sources; (4) the economy for He-3 is completely different (and currently nascent) than for He-4.

For a minute I thought you wrote isodope (iso-dope) and thought that was a Paul Silas offensive scheme.
 
One big issue is that Helium makes no compounds naturally with other elements. You can get oxygen and hydrogen by running electricity through water, but there is no version of that for Helium. You have to find it in pure pockets underground.
 
What will Elon Musk to do to fix this
 
Either something expensive, or something sexy.

Which would you prefer?

Expensive? In every industry he's in, his competitors don't know how he does things at as low of a price as he does. They have to throw out their work and start over when they see it.
 
Expensive? In every industry he's in, his competitors don't know how he does things at as low of a price as he does. They have to throw out their work and start over when they see it.

Marry, fuck, kill please:

Elon, BeeGees, Prince


For me:

Marry: Elon
Fuck: Prince
Kill: BeeGees

I am a necrophiliac.
 
Expensive? In every industry he's in, his competitors don't know how he does things at as low of a price as he does. They have to throw out their work and start over when they see it.

It was a joke.
 
Mike Tyson has it
 

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