48 seconds. I predict a glut of helium. balloons for everyone

  • Neato
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    209 months ago

    Unfortunately the amount of helium made in fusion is so small as to be useless for anything humans need. Fusion is just that efficient.

      • Neato
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        39 months ago

        We actually get all of our helium from mining, trapped gas. And we’re running out of the easy to reach stuff. So yes, no more chipmunk voices.

        But they’re similar gasses that can do the same thing and even ones that make your voice deeper.

          • DarkThoughts
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            39 months ago

            Always careful with gasses. You basically replace a certain amount of capacity in your lungs with them, so you can very much suffocate yourself if you overdo it.

    • @n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      49 months ago

      They use orders of magnitude more liquid helium to cool the magnets used to stabalize fusion than they would ever make.