[TheForge] dry liquid nitrogen vs air compressor & liquid oxygen vs oxygen cylinders

Wed Dec 18 17:09:00 2002

So do the people there talk funny?
:)
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] dry liquid nitrogen vs air compressor & liquid
oxygen vs oxygen cylinders


> RIES NIEMI wrote:
>
> > Initially blimps were filled with helium from some kind of underground
> >helium deposits in texas somewhere? or maybe the government just pumped
the
> >helium into caves for storage, Im not sure.
> >
> Amarillo  Texas -- about their only claim to fame (other than the local
> rancher who decided to bury a new cadillac nosedown in the dirt every
> year since the fifties)  is the largest helium deposits anywhere.
> Ninety percent of the worlds helium comes from Amarillo, supplies of
> which are finite and irreplaceable.    We vent 3.2 BCF  to the
> atmosphere each year, which is lost forever.  Extracting helium from the
> atmosphere is pretty expensive.  The government did start buying and
> storing helium near Amarillo in the seventies in an attempt to conserve
> it.  That program is pretty much at an end now.
>
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