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

Wed Dec 18 22:42:03 2002

Us Texans do not talk funny, except for those from near Loiusanna. The rest 
of ya'll talk funny though. I was born in Amarillo.

Adios,
Mad Mac

>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
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>
> > 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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