I didn't know the Hindenburg's hydrogen traced back to the 1925 export ban, that's a great detail. The reserve the government ran all those decades sat in the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo, Texas, which is a good picture of how much of the supply depended on one place. With Qatar hit and both Russia and China limiting exports, the "byproduct of natural gas" point is the one more people should understand.
Helium like so many other substances that are critical our industrial world is important, even though until the last couple years I thought it was mostly for blowing up balloons that when inhaled made your voice high and funny (not a good idea), so John Hunt thanks again for educating me/us to issues that really do merit even laypeoples' serious attention. This is a fragile, not antifragile world, apparently. Sure seems that way, at least in the specific niches most of us inhabit. Honestly, thanks!
I didn't know the Hindenburg's hydrogen traced back to the 1925 export ban, that's a great detail. The reserve the government ran all those decades sat in the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo, Texas, which is a good picture of how much of the supply depended on one place. With Qatar hit and both Russia and China limiting exports, the "byproduct of natural gas" point is the one more people should understand.
That's interesting John, thank you.
Helium like so many other substances that are critical our industrial world is important, even though until the last couple years I thought it was mostly for blowing up balloons that when inhaled made your voice high and funny (not a good idea), so John Hunt thanks again for educating me/us to issues that really do merit even laypeoples' serious attention. This is a fragile, not antifragile world, apparently. Sure seems that way, at least in the specific niches most of us inhabit. Honestly, thanks!
If they had a test for who can become a politician, nobody would ever fail it. They take anybody.
"Because stupidity is more common than helium."
- especially amongst government bureaucrats.