Up, Up and It’s Gone!
Forget oil, the world is running out of another important element: helium. An Amarillo, Texas reserve, one of the largest in the world, is expected to be extinct within eight years. Losing the gas would mean far more than a lack of flying balloons. Helium is used in everything from microchip production to the cooling tanks in NASA’s space shuttles. Unfortunately, the gas is not renewable and has to be built up over millions of years. And, unlike gas or oil, there are no alternatives to the properties helium offers.
~ From The Sci-Fi Files ~
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