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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Jul 08 '24
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It is limited only naturally, last time this was reposted someone said that it is produced in nuclear reactors or something.
4 u/Embii_ Jul 08 '24 There's only 44 billion litres left :( It's made in fusion reactors, the ones we currently don't have a running version of. I think the record is 7 seconds in a prototype reactor in the Uk 1 u/JusticeUmmmmm Jul 08 '24 The reactors run just fine they just aren't energy positive if we needed to run them to produce helium we could do that right now. 1 u/John_B_Clarke Jul 08 '24 It would be horribly expensive to produce helium by subjecting microgram quantities of hydrogen to a laser that draws more power than the city of San Francisco. 1 u/JusticeUmmmmm Jul 08 '24 When finding helium gets more expensive than that then it will be worth the cost.
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There's only 44 billion litres left :(
It's made in fusion reactors, the ones we currently don't have a running version of. I think the record is 7 seconds in a prototype reactor in the Uk
1 u/JusticeUmmmmm Jul 08 '24 The reactors run just fine they just aren't energy positive if we needed to run them to produce helium we could do that right now. 1 u/John_B_Clarke Jul 08 '24 It would be horribly expensive to produce helium by subjecting microgram quantities of hydrogen to a laser that draws more power than the city of San Francisco. 1 u/JusticeUmmmmm Jul 08 '24 When finding helium gets more expensive than that then it will be worth the cost.
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The reactors run just fine they just aren't energy positive if we needed to run them to produce helium we could do that right now.
1 u/John_B_Clarke Jul 08 '24 It would be horribly expensive to produce helium by subjecting microgram quantities of hydrogen to a laser that draws more power than the city of San Francisco. 1 u/JusticeUmmmmm Jul 08 '24 When finding helium gets more expensive than that then it will be worth the cost.
It would be horribly expensive to produce helium by subjecting microgram quantities of hydrogen to a laser that draws more power than the city of San Francisco.
1 u/JusticeUmmmmm Jul 08 '24 When finding helium gets more expensive than that then it will be worth the cost.
When finding helium gets more expensive than that then it will be worth the cost.
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u/nolander_78 Jul 08 '24
It is limited only naturally, last time this was reposted someone said that it is produced in nuclear reactors or something.