• Zworf@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    We could recover a lot more helium from natural gas production (some fields contain a lot) but right now it’s vented because it doesn’t have enough value for the operators. Only a few places worldwide bother recovering it during refinement.

    But as it gets scarcer the price will go up. Unfortunately the already vented helium is gone forever 😔