by Kathi Leiden | Nov 6, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
As the wind industry races to build taller turbines to reach stronger winds, a new helium wind turbine could not only win that race, but render it obsolete. Higher wind, higher power Here’s the deal with wind energy: The winds that blow a thousand or more feet...
by Kathi Leiden | Nov 5, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science
Helium is a finite resource on Earth, but the sun mass produces the stuff. Through an idea called stellar lifting, we might one day extract helium from the sun. Helium shortages Every 4 or 5 years, the world seems to find itself in another helium shortage. Right now,...
by Kathi Leiden | Aug 21, 2015 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
Like any other market, the helium market fluctuates depending on supply, but new research suggests we may have more helium than we realized. Led by Diveena Danabalan, a team of researchers from Durham and Oxford Universities studied natural gas samples from 22...
by Kathi Leiden | Jul 29, 2015 | Helium, Helium News
The first federal helium auction of one year ago, which you can watch in its entirety above, was publicly labeled a huge success, generating nearly $15 million in revenue for the U.S. Treasury. But not everyone was thrilled and complaints were recently lobbied at a...
by Kathi Leiden | Jun 23, 2015 | Helium
Every five or so years, the helium industry experiences a demand that exceeds the supply. Furthermore, helium isn’t cheap, regardless of times of surplus or shortage. If you want to save your dollars and get the most out of every molecule of the notoriously...
