{"id":11175,"date":"2014-07-05T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2014-07-05T03:56:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T07:56:14","slug":"how-911-caused-a-global-helium-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/how-911-caused-a-global-helium-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"How 9\/11 Caused A Global Helium Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/070514_0753_How911Cause1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"666\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Main writes that helium isn&#8217;t just used for filling balloons. It&#8217;s used in heavy industry and we&#8217;re running out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helium-3, a useful isotope of helium cost about $100 a liter for decades.<\/li>\n<li>After 9\/11 the US government used the same isotope to detect bomb making materials, causing demand to spike.<\/li>\n<li>Prices have increased by a factor for 2.5 each year since 2008, and not only will science take a hit, helium balloons may start to cost up to $100 a pop.<\/li>\n<li>In 2021 the US will cutoff access to its strategic helium reserves causing prices to further spike.<\/li>\n<li>On the plus side, helium is fairly abundant on the moon so if the earth ever gets its moon programs together again, we could mine some there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/how-911-made-global-helium-shortage-worse\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/how-911-made-global-helium-shortage-worse\">Popular Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Main writes that helium isn&#8217;t just used for filling balloons. It&#8217;s used in heavy industry and we&#8217;re running out: Helium-3, a useful isotope of helium cost about $100 a liter for decades. After 9\/11 the US government used the same isotope to detect bomb making materials, causing demand to spike. Prices have increased by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/070514_0753_How911Cause1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11178,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/11178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}