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Helium is an essential material for research and medical equipment, but it’s nonrenewable and difficult to recycle (theconversation.com)
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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the "fusion never" line.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They'd have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires