In a perfect world stick it in a secondary reactor and make lithium. But that’s obviously even further off than hydrogen fusion.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 hours ago
I really wonder what power plants will do with the helium once they get fusion working. Maybe a balloon business on the side isn’t such a bad idea.
saigot@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The amount of helium produced is truly miniscule, in the order of a few cubic centimeters. They’ll just pump it into the ground somewhere, assuming we ever get fusion working
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
An MRI scanner in every home!
subtext@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I mean too much Helium isn’t a problem. It’s one of the few (only?) elements that will just disappear if you don’t do anything with it.
It’s light enough that it rises to the very tip top of the earth’s atmosphere and is then stripped away by solar radiation. That’s why is a depleting natural resource, not because it’s burned or used or anything, but because it just escapes.