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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fun fact - basically the only source of helium is radionuclear decay in i want to say granite, and it's a completely non-renewable resource on human time scales.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

And we pump it into balloons lol

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

We have heaps of recoverable helium, enough for hundreds of years.

The real issue will be economically recovering helium when huge gas fields are no longer a thing.