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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room

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To: upanddown who wrote (83000)6/7/2007 7:26:34 AM
From: Dennis Roth  Read Replies (2) of 206209
 
Peak Helium!!

Sanders Research Associates
Helium: a vanishing commodity
By Rui Namorado Rosa
Jun/01/2007

Very few people are a aware of the fact that a particular substance, displaying a number of unique properties such that has deserved a huge body of research since its discovery more than a century ago, and is now widely employed in a broad range of technical devices, is actually running short of supply. We refer to helium, the lightest noble gas. Its main source of supply is natural gas fields. As hydrocarbons are being depleted, and, in particular fields with higher helium content being tapped for helium, show declining productivity. Peak helium is contemplated very seriously.
sandersresearch.com

By the time fusion becomes practical, we will past the world peak in helium. The demand for helium for use by fusion reactors will soar and but by then it will be too late.
theoildrum.com

>> I've got peak oil, peak gas, peak coal, peak bee and now peak soil. Any others? <<

So many peaks, so little time.
What's a Worry Wart to do?
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