• frauddogg [they/them, null/void]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Helium a very non-renewable element without some manner of atomic science we haven’t developed to scale yet?

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      You’re correct. Our main source is a byproduct of the natural gas industry and once it’s released to the atmosphere it’s gone for good (so far gone that it leaves the earth).