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INTRO: Do you sometimes celebrate birthdays and special events with floating balloons filled with helium?
You should know better. Why? Because helium is more important for research, and because the reserves may be running out.
“There has been a lot of talk about the world running out of helium,” Professor Reidar G. Trønnes says.
This is the reason why several municipalities in Norway say no to helium balloons on Constitution Day, May 17th: less plastic waste and less use of helium. That is the reason why several municipalities say no to helium balloons on 17 May: less plastic waste and less use of helium.
“It would be foolish if it ran out, because the helium is necessary,” says Trønnes.
Helium cools down magnets in MRI machines that examine people for cancer and other diseases. It is also used to make super-fast trains – such as the Shinkansen train in Japan.
“However, the good news is that we're not running out of helium,” Trønnes says.
The Earth's interior is absolutely enormous, and this is where the helium comes from. “It will continue to seep out through rocks and cracks forever,” he says.
The drama lies in the fact that we keep inventing more and more technology that requires helium, like the high-speed trains. “It ultimately falls to us humans to figure out how to efficiently extract it,” he says... (MORE - details)
INTRO: Do you sometimes celebrate birthdays and special events with floating balloons filled with helium?
You should know better. Why? Because helium is more important for research, and because the reserves may be running out.
“There has been a lot of talk about the world running out of helium,” Professor Reidar G. Trønnes says.
This is the reason why several municipalities in Norway say no to helium balloons on Constitution Day, May 17th: less plastic waste and less use of helium. That is the reason why several municipalities say no to helium balloons on 17 May: less plastic waste and less use of helium.
“It would be foolish if it ran out, because the helium is necessary,” says Trønnes.
Helium cools down magnets in MRI machines that examine people for cancer and other diseases. It is also used to make super-fast trains – such as the Shinkansen train in Japan.
“However, the good news is that we're not running out of helium,” Trønnes says.
The Earth's interior is absolutely enormous, and this is where the helium comes from. “It will continue to seep out through rocks and cracks forever,” he says.
The drama lies in the fact that we keep inventing more and more technology that requires helium, like the high-speed trains. “It ultimately falls to us humans to figure out how to efficiently extract it,” he says... (MORE - details)