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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)

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Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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[-] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

When I looked into this a couple years ago, my understanding was that yes, the supply is finite, but the amount we have in storage is a lot and we slowing mining operations because we have enough on reserve for a while.