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The world is running out of helium. Here's why doctors are worried.
The world is running out of helium. Here's why doctors are worried.
Liquid helium, the coldest element on Earth, is needed to keep the magnets in MRI machines running. Without it, doctors would lose a critical medical tool. Oct 22, 2022 A global helium shortage has doctors worried about one of the natural gas’s most essential, and perhaps unexpected, uses: MRIs. Strange as it sounds, the lighter-than-air element that gives balloons their buoyancy also powers the vital medical diagnostic machines. An MRI can’t function without some 2,000 liters of ultra-cold liquid helium keeping its magnets cool enough to work. But helium — a nonrenewable element found deep within the Earth’s crust — is running low, leaving hospitals wondering how to plan for a future with a much scarcer supply. “Helium has become a big concern,” said Mahadevappa Mahesh, professor of radiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore. “Especially now with the geopolitical situation.” https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...mris-rcna52978 |
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Remember what Congressman Hank Johnson said about this, "Imagine a world without balloons.".
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Fyi
Just last year the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the mean volume of recoverable helium in the United States in presently known geologic natural gas reservoirs to be 306 billion cubic feet. This does not include the helium present in the Federal helium reserve at Cliffside field near Amarillo, Texas.
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