why don’t we just bring a shitload back from saturn or something
End nuclear fusion!
Submitted 6 hours ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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cRazi_man@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
We should go back to filling them with hydrogen.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
The alternative is to use extremely limited quantities of gas crucial for MRIs, chip making, metallurgy, and a few other high tech applications. But hey, pretty balloons.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Would make for more exciting birthday parties.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Am I missing a joke? Airships used hydrogen gas
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
Fuck! How am I going to refuel this fusion reactor I brought back from the future? You can’t have shit these days.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
May I suggest food waste from someone’s garbage can? I hear that works.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Just use hot air. Lots of that to go around.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m afraid it’s already in use by politicians.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I could have sworn they were hot air generators
julysfire@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There will absolutely still be a customer that takes a balloon from behind the sign and asks for it to be filled up in the store.
Beldarofremulak@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They will demand it or else poor Kayla’lin 'da Leeigh Lynn Lee’s princess party will be ruined.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I think you just summoned an Elder God.
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.
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.
saigot@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
In a perfect world stick it in a secondary reactor and make lithium. But that’s obviously even further off than hydrogen fusion.
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!
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Good thing I finally finished voice training and no longer need Helium to pass 👍
clickyello@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
nice keming on that one
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 hour ago
Given its scarcity, helium should be more expensive, to the point where filling party balloons with it is decadent profligacy.
el_abuelo@programming.dev 52 minutes ago
I mean it is expensive, it’s just the amount required for a balloon is insignificant and thus seems cheap.
As a diver who uses helium I can tell you it is, compared to air, so much more expensive they actually charge me for it (rather than just rolled into the cost of a dive) - to the sum of about $300 a dive - depending on depth.
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 30 minutes ago
What is helium used for when diving?