Helium is an essential material for research and medical equipment, but it's nonrenewable and difficult to recycle
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With the fourth significant shortage of helium in a decade continuing, companies and researchers are looking for alternative sources.
  • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
    17·
    10 months ago

    This graph shows projections for how long it was predicted to take to develop fusion power depending on the funding. Graph showing how long it should take to develop fusion power. There are five lines, "maximum effective effort" ending in 1990, "accelerated" in 1993, "aggressive" in 1998, "moderate" in 2005, and "fusion never" which never ends. The line showing actual funding is below "fusion never".

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      So if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the “fusion never” line.

      • Cort@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        They’d have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires