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05/10/2019 09:31 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores LOS ANGELES - There’s a global helium shortage and it’s affecting not just party supply stores, but everything from aerospace to the medical field. The Bureau of Land Management operates and maintains a helium storage reservoir, enrichment plant and pipeline system near Amarillo, Texas. It supplies more than 40 percent of domestic demand for the element. The USGS report also noted that 14 plants in the United States provided about 1.4 billion cubic feet of helium for domestic use, with about 30 percent of that helium being used for MRIs. Helium is also used for weather and research balloons, welding, fiber optics, leak detection and defense, aerospace and energy programs. [ link to www.fox10phoenix.com] Pickle Suprise! |
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05/10/2019 10:42 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores Dang it! Guess I'll have to postpone that suicide. |
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05/10/2019 10:47 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores There is always shortage of Helium before a major US military operation. It was like that before the both Gulf wars and Kosovo ops. |
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05/10/2019 10:52 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores Oh no, how will the blimps fly?  Doom on. Last Edited by Tynyyn on 05/10/2019 10:53 AM |
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05/10/2019 10:53 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores Oh no, how will the blimps fly? Doom on.
Quoting: Tynyyn Liquid Helium is required for the most sensitive thermal imaging... |
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05/10/2019 10:59 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores Helium from Helios meaning sun- symbolic and
A good thing |
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05/10/2019 11:28 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores
There is always shortage of Helium before a major US military operation. It was like that before the both Gulf wars and Kosovo ops.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76054898  I'm becoming an expert in identifying bikes'n'boats thanks to GLP |
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05/10/2019 11:33 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores Years ago there was a shortage around here and finding a helium tank became impossible. Then all of a sudden they were stocked again. I heard something about the moon having helium. Oddly I was thinking about this recently for some unknown reason as I haven’t needed a helium tank. |
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05/10/2019 11:39 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores OMG!! I heard that the mood in the Goodyear Blimp Hanger was deflated over the last several weeks.  |
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05/10/2019 01:06 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores
OMG!! I heard that the mood in the Goodyear Blimp Hanger was deflated over the last several weeks.  Pickle Suprise! |
thinking...
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05/10/2019 02:19 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores Where does helium come from - is it made or mined or what? In his poem Human Pride, Marx admits that his aim is not to improve the world, reform or revolutionize it, but simply to ruin it and enjoy it being ruined: With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the face of the world, And see the collapse of this pygmy giant whose fall will not stifle my ardor. Then will I wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator. “Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.”
– Nasseim Haramein, Director of Research for the Resonance ProjectNormalize every aberrant behavior, bring common all deviancy and let fly the reins of morality and reason, then welcome in that utopia that liberals embrace called communism, that which most Americans with but a shard of ethic would immediately recognize as evil.
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05/10/2019 02:21 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores The Moon has plenty of Helium 3...we've been mining it there for years |
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05/10/2019 02:24 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Global helium shortage affecting medical and aerospace industries, not just party supply stores
Where does helium come from - is it made or mined or what?
Quoting: thinking... I think they filter it from natural gas plants. A small percentage is mixed in with the petro gases and special equipment captures the helium content |
