Welding and also liquid helium is used in magnets for MRI machines. That's where most of it goes to.
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Ouch... I really hope a substitute can be found for both.
Welding and also liquid helium is used in magnets for MRI machines. That's where most of it goes to.
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What I meant with the first was other countries actively preventing many from gaining the ability to make nuclear weapons, which means no nuclear generators. For example, I don't think the US would be thrilled if... I don't know, Egypt tried to build nuclear generators for this reason. They already weren't with Iran, and I don't think the world liked South Africa having them.
But anyway, I guess not with uranium, because from the sounds of things, nuclear generators are far too expensive. It seems they almost always require state funding, or at least state subsidies, to really get off the ground, which is rather opposite of current economic trends.
Yes but I think 90% of the supply on Earth comes from one natural gas field in the US and that is almost tapped
Not sure
It can be produced from the air and other natural gas wells, but that costs 10x as much
In any case I am not completely sure, read this awhile ago
A quick google suggests neon is about 10 times as expensive as helium. Theres about 4 times as much neon as helium in the atmosphere, so helium extracted that was would be 4-5 times as expensive as neon, likely. So that looks like about a 50 fold increase.
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numbers. $33/100g Ne, thats about five moles or a bit more than a hundred litres at stp.
Helium $20-$50/100 cubic feet. A foot is 30 cm and a litre is (10cm)^3. So a cubic foot is nine litres.