@@diedie865 Hydrogen often bonds with other atoms which weighs it down. Helium is one of the "noble gasses", which are notable because they don't bond with anything.
@@fallendown8828 the notion we know how to fully use helium for both technological importance to making our voices weird shows we’re smart. If we used it to only one of those uses, that’s dumb
@@maddrone7814 yeah we can also transver organs from one human to another or create AI or figure out evry single bone we have in our body these kinds of thinks really feels like we are super smart but over using an unsustainable sourced matarial for making our sound funny is pretty dum.
@@gjsyhcufax9091 Hot air balloons work by heating the air inside the balloon, so the air is less tense and thus "lighter" as the surrounding air. They don't use helium at all.
5:10 it’s weird that they would show a graph here without listing a source. It hardly takes much extra effort to add citations and it would significantly increase the video’s authority on the subject.
It’s so light it vents away from Earth; otherwise the rest of the vid wouldn’t mean anything, because even if the helium was used, it would still be in the atmosphere somewhere. It might be harder to extract, but still possible; however, it venting away to space is an irreversible loss.
@@Tzar1 In theory yes, in practice the time it would take for this to happen is so long that the Earth would be destroyed by something else first (most obviously the sun's red giant phase in about 5 billion years).
@@manuelroger1035 truth! And self-loathing, the need for a social class system, greed of resources, and disregard for almost everything else on the planet besides us.
I was surprised that he said it correctly at 6:47 ("cutter"), because he got it wrong the first time at 4:48 (kuh-TAR). EDIT 1: I should not have said that "kuh-TAR" is wrong, per se, only that it is a worse pronunciation than "cutter". There is no clear-cut "right" pronunciation in English. EDIT 2: Per later comments, he indeed said "cudder" the second time, which is also not a very good pronunciation. I should have listened better.
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no UA-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear fej
You can't use the term "Rare earth element" (0:30) for helium because this expression refers to the lanthanoides (also called lanthanides) that is, elements 57 to 73, lanthanum to lutetium.
Balloons really are pointless when you think about it - wastes a rare gas which can be used for space travel and coolant and then ends up in some landfill before choking a turtle somewhere
Love the videos. FYI: Hot air balloons (which were flying in the picture @2:51) use Propane and not helium. Gas balloons look very different than hot air balloons.
The real reason we are running out of helium is because anime girls are breathing all of them. Why do you think their voices are high pitched all the time?!
Everyone knows how big an olympic sized swimming pool is. It is clearly defined. I have no idea how I should picture how big the squared length lights travels in a vacuum during 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of caesium-133 divided by 299792458 is. That's just arbitrary nonsense some idiots decided to call a square metre. God bless Freedom Units.
@@cahinton. an Olympic swimming pool equals 2 500 000 liters. Multiply that by 400 000 swimming pools = 1e+12 liters. Or, in other words, 1 cubic kilometer. 1 cubic kilometer is fairly simple to imagine. 400 000 swimming pools is just gibberish
Lets go of a balloon today: *"Oh, no, there goes our balloon - Once sec, I'll buy 80 more on Amazon."* Lets go of a ballon in 40 years: *" NO! NOOOO! oh, NO! WHY!? WHY!? AHHH, (sobs), wwhhyy? WHY!?"*
@@ANTSMR_Dango some people have other problems and they forget important things like eating, drinking and showering. If you don't need a reminder, that's great :)
i been hearing about this so called shortage for decades. There was a huge gasoline shortage in 1974 when i was a teenager. Then the prices shot way up and its been fine for 47 years now
The fact that people can afford to use it in party balloons, shows that there isn't a shortage. Supply and Demand, if helium starts becoming scarce, you won't be able to afford it in a party ballon. As it stands, natural gas production will get supply plentiful for generations.
Who else thought that the music in the background was from one of the early Assassin's Creed games? (maybe II or Brotherhood) The first few chords are the exact same.
The Chernobyl workers reported that in the most radioactive zones, people's voices would get higher. I think it's likely that was caused by helium being generated constantly from the intense alpha radiation. Alpha particles are 2 protons and 2 newtons thrown off a radioactive atom, and they'll react with pretty much any nearby thing to become ordinary helium.
Fun fact: SpaceX's Starship, the vehicle that will (most likely) allow interplanetary transportation, will actually not be using helium for pressurization. It will instead use its normal propellants (autogenous pressurization), methane and oxygen, which are much more attainable (methane can be produced using hydrogen and CO2).
2:48 I know that I am nitpicking, but Hot air balloons don't use helium to rise. It's regular air that is heated to excite the molecules in the balloon.
Interesting! Other than balloons, I was completely unaware of the other uses of helium. This video just is just reminding me how much I've forgotten from science at school and college 😅
I paused to come post this comment. I had to rewind because I swore I heard him say cutter for Qatar. lol Then I started questioning myself about it because I assume he may be smarter than me so he's probably right. Definitely kuh-taar.
I've wasted so much of the world's helium just to make my voice squeak. Well not anymore. As of today I am forming the You Intellects Against Helium Waste (YIAHW) and together we will end the waste of helium for the use of making our voices sound stupid. We will save the Earth from depletion of her precious helium.
You forgot about welding with helium gas, while other industries can get a good use out of helium welding you’re literally pissing helium out of the bottle to weld when they’re are alternative gases
@@ch3m1x81 Deuterium is rare naturally but it can be extracted from water through electrolysis (iirc 1 in every 1000 water molecules contains Deuterium but you will have to double check me on that. I think Tritium which is also needed is even rarer but still common enough in water). Electrolysis cost energy of course but ideally the energy generated from the fusion reactions will far outstrip the cost of procuring Deuterium and Tritium.
The key missing piece of information here is that helium easily escapes from the earth's atmosphere into space. If it gets released, it's effectively gone. This is exacerbated by the fact that it is such a small atom that it can diffuse through barriers more easily than other gases.
Honestly, I see this helium crisis as ultimately a good thing, further forcing humanity to expand outwards into the solar system in order to collect it.
So the price of helium goes up, we start searching for alternatives, invest in research on ways to use less helium, and divert production towards less helium intensive products. It's an issue but not a crisis.
everytime i see helium ballon at the grocery store like the ones i saw yesterday... superbowl and valentines day ballons.. i cry like the italian guy in the littering commercials from the 70s and 80s
One of the reasons that we replace nitrogen with helium in mixed gas diving, is to negate the "high" caused from breathing nitrogen at extreme depth, especially in sat diving. We typically use a 98/2 heliox mix with helium being at 98% of the gas mixture. The side effect of helium saturation on the human body is the damage that it can cause to tissue during decompression, so it demands extremely long decompression times. When breathed at 1 atm, it has little effect on human physiology other than the deplacement of O2 from the gas one is breathing.
Only when gone will people see that Helium was a noble one.
Glad to know helium is subscribed to Metatron
yes
Here before comment goes kaboom
Tornado EF4
Tornado
Breaths in Helium:
ᵂʰᵃᵗ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈ ʷᵉ ᵈᵒ ʷᶦᵗʰᵒᵘᵗ ʰᵉˡᶦᵘᵐˀ
breaths
**inhales Automatically**
breaths
Breathes
Bruths
"Rare earth element thats hard to find here" *humans use it for decorative parties*
NOooOOoOoOOOooOoOoo yOu cAN't jUSt wASte a RaRe EArTh ElEMeNt wE NEEd ThAt fOR meDiCinE
haha balloon machine go brrrr
idk most people use air for ballons
@Let's Travel _pops balloon_ what I can't hear you!? _pop_
*and talking like chipmunks
Imagine what the Aliens must think of us
"They're wasting such valuable resources like it's nothing... Imagine how much they must have of it."
Helium, what do you think about the shortage?
Helium: *doesn't react.
Noice very underrated
LMAO
@@captainbean1264 eh
big brain joke
It really showed you who's the alpha in the relationship.
Fun Fact: The reason Helium is so rare is because it’s so light that any loose atoms literally fly off into outer space.
Woah, that's a cool fact. Thank you for sharing that with us.
@@diedie865 It is basically as rare as a free molecules, but hydrogen can be easily extracted from water.
@@diedie865 Hydrogen often bonds with other atoms which weighs it down. Helium is one of the "noble gasses", which are notable because they don't bond with anything.
Or it's in the upper atmosphere where it would be very expensive to retrieve it.
stop lying
Helium: *is rare earth element with almost limitless technological benefits*
Humans: wow it do a float and make voice go squeak
We are incredably dum
haha deflating balloon go brrrrrr
Bruh
@@fallendown8828 the notion we know how to fully use helium for both technological importance to making our voices weird shows we’re smart. If we used it to only one of those uses, that’s dumb
@@maddrone7814 yeah we can also transver organs from one human to another or create AI or figure out evry single bone we have in our body these kinds of thinks really feels like we are super smart but over using an unsustainable sourced matarial for making our sound funny is pretty dum.
RLL: speaking about helium
also RLL: showing images of hot air balloons, which have nothing to do with helium
I was looking for this comment lolol
What?
@@gjsyhcufax9091 Hot air balloons work by heating the air inside the balloon, so the air is less tense and thus "lighter" as the surrounding air. They don't use helium at all.
@@chaotbl aren't their gas balloons also which look like hot air ones
@@gjsyhcufax9091 hot air balloons are open to the outside on the bottom.
Earth: "I'm running out of helium"
Sun: Lol just combine 2 hydrogen atoms
Lol
It's kinda like saying we have a water problem on Earth. We don't have a water problem, we have a salt problem! The ocean is too salty to drink!
@@HELLO7657 That would give you 2 helium atoms.
@@cl219 It's possible and already being tested a nuclear fusion reaction.
@@米空軍パイロット yes, that is helium gas
Jupiter : **got abundant helium**
US : looks like jupiter need some democracy!
"It's free real estate"
Manifest Destiny
Are you saying us or us
Welp see you guys in a thousand years or something idk. Say hello to the Jupiter Helium Fleets for me
US: *sends a nuke or rocket to Jupiter*
Jupiter: *quickly burns them all in his atmosphere* Lol
5:10 it’s weird that they would show a graph here without listing a source. It hardly takes much extra effort to add citations and it would significantly increase the video’s authority on the subject.
Shut up
@@drunkendog13 he’s right tho
Hmm that is strange guess we can't believe everything we hear
Apparently something is gonna happen in 2023 and 2024 as well.
@@Zyo117 what do you mean by that
If Michael Jackson didn't go "He-He-He" all the time then we'd have more.
Underrated comment
@Lejindary I like your PFP nerd.
._.
@Brandon H I hate tea. Make it soda.
😁😁. Good one
Party Balloon Ads in the future: Now you can have part of Jupiter with you during your occasions
😂👌
Jupiter is mostly Hydrogen
@@sumreensultana1860 It's still 25% Helium
If humanity actually managed to efficiently farm both hellium and hydrogen from Jupiter we'd be living in golden age lol.
helium: rare element
humans: “lets breath it in and sound like mice”
He didn't even said that the reason we are losing helium is because it leaves Earth's atmosphere and goes outer space.
It’s so light it vents away from
Earth; otherwise the rest of the vid wouldn’t mean anything, because even if the helium was used, it would still be in the atmosphere somewhere. It might be harder to extract, but still possible; however, it venting away to space is an irreversible loss.
And all the other gasses in the atmosphere will leave too over time
@@Tzar1 In theory yes, in practice the time it would take for this to happen is so long that the Earth would be destroyed by something else first (most obviously the sun's red giant phase in about 5 billion years).
Yeah.
Space is fake
Helium is also used to backfill rocket fuel tanks during flight, that way the fuel tanks don’t implode.
2:45 "Balloons are the best known use" - goes on to show hot-air balloons with zero Helium in them. Well well ;)
Yeah blimps would be more appropriate
I guess their stock footage subscription only had hot air balloons
hot air balloons? RLL: no they're helium balloons
have you seen helium and hot air in the same place?
@@fabio5286 yea my crush was there so yea, I saw hot air
We can use hot air ;-;
@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 Well you know how tornadoes work so maybe not her.
I was looking for this comment.
RLL: Talks about helium balloons
Also RLL: Shows hor air balloons
Hor air balloons lol
Welcome to hor air
All our flight attendants are hors.
Yay hor balloons
Imagine we will run out of just about everything eventually.
except humans
Water shortages in the southwest, coming soon! The 2020's are off to a great start, and will only get greater!
Except the human ignorance 😁 we'll never have to worry about running out of that ✌🏻
@@manuelroger1035 truth! And self-loathing, the need for a social class system, greed of resources, and disregard for almost everything else on the planet besides us.
This reminds me of the peak oil scare we had back in the 80's.
Should've narrated this video after inhaling Helium xD
xD.... Welcome back 2012
But do you know what he should've done even more ? Help the poor settlements. If he didn't , you should. Here , I'll mark them on our map.
@@afinoxi not again.....
@@afinoxi nobody cares this is America
Maybe you should have helped that settlement I just marked on your map
I dunno about that but I read that title as "World's Heroin Problem"
Now I kinda want that video
For your comment I remembered about Heroine BiBi
Yeah we don't have enough heroin we need more.
Lmao
Why were hot air balloons being shown several times when talking about helium?
That was really annoying me too.
That angered my blood.
Here's a job for you, teaboy. Just stick in some pictures of balloons at that point in the video...
I went to the comments for this lol
Because it fits with what the entire first half of this video was about, which was the history of helium
Smiling friends brought me here
saaaame dude
That's was from OneyPlays. lol
People: "screw Helium, we don't need it"
RLL: "but there would be less party balloons"
People: *PANIK*
Lol
I like the idea of Hydrogen party balloons. Much more fun potential than just a squeaky voice!
@@dansimpson6844 bruhhhh 😳
@@dansimpson6844
Theere would be a lot of explosive parties
@@icarus_2625 me an intellectual: *_a i r_*
Everybody will ask "Where is helium ?" never "How is helium ?"
Wow that was funny
Why is everybody copy pasting the same joke but changing one word in it?
@@6z0 no it was not. Helium (a gas) does not have felling's. How do you even...
@@siennaq5553 No fuckin shit. I was being sarcastic
@@siennaq5553 I don't like doing this partner but uh... Wooosh.
25 year old in 2100: So why did we run out of helium?
We in 2100: We blew too many party balloons with helium.
😂😂😂
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🤣
We in 2100
@@tedkaczynski3126 found the impostor
The way he pronounced Qatar as ‘cutter’ made me laugh
I was surprised that he said it correctly at 6:47 ("cutter"), because he got it wrong the first time at 4:48 (kuh-TAR).
EDIT 1: I should not have said that "kuh-TAR" is wrong, per se, only that it is a worse pronunciation than "cutter". There is no clear-cut "right" pronunciation in English.
EDIT 2: Per later comments, he indeed said "cudder" the second time, which is also not a very good pronunciation. I should have listened better.
i thought it's "quey-der"
@@forcyland the right pronunciation is cutter
@@j.s.7335 It's pronounced Ka Tar.
@@hanibachi3719 no, it's Ka Tar.
3D Squelton loves balloons
It’s all fun and games until our voices are high forever.
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no UA-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear fej
@@AxxLAfriku f. U
@@AxxLAfriku Yesn’t
@@AxxLAfriku I- actually that’s a really good question. *Why?*
@@AxxLAfriku bots. like you, bots aren't real
RLL: Helium Problem
Me, in an insanely high voice: Sorry what?
You can't use the term "Rare earth element" (0:30) for helium because this expression refers to the lanthanoides (also called lanthanides) that is, elements 57 to 73, lanthanum to lutetium.
Balloons really are pointless when you think about it - wastes a rare gas which can be used for space travel and coolant and then ends up in some landfill before choking a turtle somewhere
Nothing is smoother than this guys ability to transition into a sponsor
I saw it coming from a mile away.
Honestly filling up our balloons is the cutest excuse for space exploration
Do a shot every time he says "critical."
No thanks, i like living to much.
now do it with Everclear
how 'bout everytime he said Skillshare?
this appeared on my recommended as soon as it got released wtf
same
*ALGORITHM*
same
Same
same
Love the videos.
FYI: Hot air balloons (which were flying in the picture @2:51) use Propane and not helium. Gas balloons look very different than hot air balloons.
They don't use propane per se, they use HOT AIR, the HOT AIR is generated by burning propane.
The real reason we are running out of helium is because anime girls are breathing all of them. Why do you think their voices are high pitched all the time?!
I can’t stand anime girls’ voices.
2:15 America: Where we use Olympic Sized Swimming Pools to measure things.
Gasses*
Would people in other countries be able to immediately visualize 30 quadrillion liters or whatever 400,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools equates to?
Everyone knows how big an olympic sized swimming pool is. It is clearly defined. I have no idea how I should picture how big the squared length lights travels in a vacuum during 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of caesium-133 divided by 299792458 is. That's just arbitrary nonsense some idiots decided to call a square metre. God bless Freedom Units.
@@cahinton., of course I was joking though. I myself find these comparisons to be better for visualisation than using any form of units.
@@cahinton. an Olympic swimming pool equals 2 500 000 liters. Multiply that by 400 000 swimming pools = 1e+12 liters. Or, in other words, 1 cubic kilometer.
1 cubic kilometer is fairly simple to imagine. 400 000 swimming pools is just gibberish
Lets go of a balloon today: *"Oh, no, there goes our balloon - Once sec, I'll buy 80 more on Amazon."*
Lets go of a ballon in 40 years: *" NO! NOOOO! oh, NO! WHY!? WHY!? AHHH, (sobs), wwhhyy? WHY!?"*
rip :(
imagine seeing a grammar/spelling nerd, i can definitely see it already
I guess you could say the price of helium...*takes off glasses*...has ballooned.
@@Gmackematix lol
@@Gmackematix haha good one!
So nobody gonna talk about the nostalgic, peaceful music playing in the background?
no
Nah party baloons are better topic
What is the name of the song
For a video about helium I would expect very light music.
I love how you find creative ways to connect Skillshare to whatever the video is about 😁
Anybody else wondering why he showed a hot air balloon when talking about helium? 😂
0:28 why did he show a hot air balloon? 😅
Am i missing something??
No, I would guess he is just cheap and could not find free/cheap stock footage of tethered balloons 😅
I've never been this early to a RealLifeLore video, feels like an achievement.
Disliked
its not
No one:
Absolutely not a single person:
RealLifeLore: "Cutter"
Qatar: exists
RealLifeLore: *Cutter*
😂😂
I think its funnier that im pretty sure "cutter" is closer to the offical pronunciation than something like "ca-tar"
@@thenickstrikebetter true pronunciation of Qatar is “kuh-taar”
@@taylorindebt i heard that "cutter" was actually more accurate, but "ca-tar" is accepted since everyone gets it wrong.
Just clicked this video to see if you got a new mic, not having watched vid in a while. Glad you did!
Congratulations on 4 million subscribers 🎉
Disclaimer:No Toyota Corolla was harmed during making of this video.
Lol
Lol
Hello! This is your daily reminder to drink water! Stay hydrated guys :)
My body reminds me everytime. Noone needs random reminder.
@@ANTSMR_Dango some people have other problems and they forget important things like eating, drinking and showering. If you don't need a reminder, that's great :)
@@ichkuessdich thanks man I appreciate you
@@TreeskoTHQ YOU are appreciated!
i been hearing about this so called shortage for decades. There was a huge gasoline shortage in 1974 when i was a teenager. Then the prices shot way up and its been fine for 47 years now
we are still running out, thats why we are using electric cars now or atleast trying to.
2022: Well, that comment aged badly
Very interesting and worthwhile video.
Hey RealLifeLore, I Really enjoy ur videos it helps my learning!😄
Helium will run out soon if we don't stop using it on birthdays and parties
The fact that people can afford to use it in party balloons, shows that there isn't a shortage.
Supply and Demand, if helium starts becoming scarce, you won't be able to afford it in a party ballon.
As it stands, natural gas production will get supply plentiful for generations.
@@TheOwenMajor Supply and demand. The Holy words of our civilisation.
@@TheOwenMajor Exactly what I was thinking.
@@TheOwenMajor And healthcare must be extremely scarce in the USA since it costs so much without insurance!
@@TheOwenMajor I am also sure if supply and demand was met then people would love to buy helium balloons for $20 each and business would be booming!
I like that you kept showing hot air balloons in there 😂
The music you used could not have possibly been more beautiful.
Smiling Friends?
Humanity: Not doing anything to advance space travel.
Helium reserves: Fine, I'll do it myself.
Some scientist: Hey, I made He in my nuclear fusion reactor.
@@Notmyname1593 You can do that but it's very inefficient rn
Who else thought that the music in the background was from one of the early Assassin's Creed games? (maybe II or Brotherhood) The first few chords are the exact same.
Time to go mine Jupiter, boys!
It costs like... 100 minerals.
“Mine Jupiter”
Me and the boys mining a giant cloud of material
@@zethicalyt2406 less mining and more giant vacuum
You know Uranus and Neptune are easier to mind right?
And we'll likely mine them for fusion fuel.
Which produces helium.
Jupiter has no solid surface.
We need to stop laughing using "hehehe" to save on Helium.
The Chernobyl workers reported that in the most radioactive zones, people's voices would get higher.
I think it's likely that was caused by helium being generated constantly from the intense alpha radiation. Alpha particles are 2 protons and 2 newtons thrown off a radioactive atom, and they'll react with pretty much any nearby thing to become ordinary helium.
This was so well timed after corridor digitals video lmao
1 view, 199 likes. This is the most I’ve ever seen
i have 1 view/352 likes /3 dislikes
1 view 353 likes i beat you
1view 600 likes
1 view so beautiful
Yeah for me 1 view but only 34 likes
1980: "We will run out of oil by 2020."
2020: "We will run out of helium by 2060."
Fun fact: SpaceX's Starship, the vehicle that will (most likely) allow interplanetary transportation, will actually not be using helium for pressurization. It will instead use its normal propellants (autogenous pressurization), methane and oxygen, which are much more attainable (methane can be produced using hydrogen and CO2).
The show on adult swim called “Smiling Friends” told me about this.
the only reason we’re running out of He is that we keep wasting it while solving ideal gas equations
holy shit, Gnarly is right
Archer: "JESUS, Lana, the Helium!"
"CAPTAIN LAMMERS??!!"
"Nice read, Velma."
"lana... Lana... LANA.... LANAAAAAA"
2:48 I know that I am nitpicking, but Hot air balloons don't use helium to rise. It's regular air that is heated to excite the molecules in the balloon.
Interesting! Other than balloons, I was completely unaware of the other uses of helium. This video just is just reminding me how much I've forgotten from science at school and college 😅
Is anyone going the most mention the fact that he pronounced Qatar like “Cuter”?
Lmao I read this comment literally the second I heard him say that heretical pronounciation
OK Dulton.
That’s how Indians pronounce it.
I paused to come post this comment. I had to rewind because I swore I heard him say cutter for Qatar. lol Then I started questioning myself about it because I assume he may be smarter than me so he's probably right. Definitely kuh-taar.
I've wasted so much of the world's helium just to make my voice squeak. Well not anymore. As of today I am forming the You Intellects Against Helium Waste (YIAHW) and together we will end the waste of helium for the use of making our voices sound stupid. We will save the Earth from depletion of her precious helium.
We'll still have sulfur hexaflouride😁
Me: wants to watch this video late at night without my parents noticing
*turns on captions
UA-cam: vitemise is all we got...
Why
Missed opportunity to do this whole video on helium
I was literally thinking about this topic like 2 days ago and then this shows up in my recommended and I was shook
Am I the only one who saw Corridor Crew's video yesterday on balloons and already knows most of this?
Disliked
Truly disgusting, that some “people” would do such a horrible thing.
Use Helium in medical imaging devices?
@@DanCooper404 -humanity was the virus-
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Grow up.
This exact same comment with all the same punctuation was also posted by other accounts.
@@freedomofspeech2867 I'm kidding
You forgot about welding with helium gas, while other industries can get a good use out of helium welding you’re literally pissing helium out of the bottle to weld when they’re are alternative gases
I like how the graph at 5:20 is data that hasn't even been collected yet because it is in the future.
congrats on 4 million subs!!!
Please make a video on "what if japanese empire reunited in one country"
The Nazis are already mining Helium-3 on the dark side of the Moon.
Dude I just looked up the helium thing he was talking about. That's true. That's like 100% e-everything he said was true. It's all gonna be gone.
I’m truly shocked at the storage method used for the national reserve.. great video!
Congrats on 4mil!!!!!
I would have said "when Hell freezes over", but... (/me points at Amarillo, TX right now)
Don’t worry. Once humans finally figure out fusion tech, we will have all the helium in the world.
;-) its always 30 years away for some reason.
So but you need deuterium to do so and it's even rarer
@@ch3m1x81 Deuterium is rare naturally but it can be extracted from water through electrolysis (iirc 1 in every 1000 water molecules contains Deuterium but you will have to double check me on that. I think Tritium which is also needed is even rarer but still common enough in water). Electrolysis cost energy of course but ideally the energy generated from the fusion reactions will far outstrip the cost of procuring Deuterium and Tritium.
Unfortunately, the lack of funding makes it unlikely we'd see a sustained fusion reaction in our lifetime
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me to get through the pandemic!
The key missing piece of information here is that helium easily escapes from the earth's atmosphere into space. If it gets released, it's effectively gone. This is exacerbated by the fact that it is such a small atom that it can diffuse through barriers more easily than other gases.
No
Honestly, I see this helium crisis as ultimately a good thing, further forcing humanity to expand outwards into the solar system in order to collect it.
Next: We’re running out of *air*
Water
Food
Ores
So the price of helium goes up, we start searching for alternatives, invest in research on ways to use less helium, and divert production towards less helium intensive products. It's an issue but not a crisis.
no helium, no silicon.
everytime i see helium ballon at the grocery store like the ones i saw yesterday... superbowl and valentines day ballons.. i cry like the italian guy in the littering commercials from the 70s and 80s
Something else to worry about. Excellent! 😉
I shall not speak but people in Holland use helium as a drug to get stoned 😂😂😳
you cant get high from helium wtf! better sniff kaas!
@@Feindlich1 stoned, people use it as a alternative to lachgas. And btw😂😂😂
you're mixing up helium and nitrous oxide.
Or helium and krypton, but from experience I can say you can't get high of helium.
@@iQKyyR3K meant that indeed 😅
One of the reasons that we replace nitrogen with helium in mixed gas diving, is to negate the "high" caused from breathing nitrogen at extreme depth, especially in sat diving. We typically use a 98/2 heliox mix with helium being at 98% of the gas mixture. The side effect of helium saturation on the human body is the damage that it can cause to tissue during decompression, so it demands extremely long decompression times. When breathed at 1 atm, it has little effect on human physiology other than the deplacement of O2 from the gas one is breathing.
Lol I learned this a while ago that why I bought many of them so I could sell it later