Helium shortage

[prophet]

Have you checked with lamptons welding supply?

ETA: 2322577 is the phone number

 

[HiredHand]

Helium shortage?

Where'd it all go... isn't it still out there somewhere?

It's kinda like conserving water... as far as I know, all the water is still around. It's not like it leaves the planet or something.

OH... lookout, there goes another friggin pile of water and helium just dropped off Earth while we weren't lookin'. Damn luck that.

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/03/why_is_helium_so_scarce.php

 

[HMFIC]

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/03/why_is_helium_so_scarce.php

Don't try and confuse me with all your fancy science talk.

Everyone knows that helium doesn't freeze so all we have to do is grab a big handfull of air, freeze it, and whatever doesn't fall to the ground is helium.

Sheesh... it's a good thing you guys have me around or else nobody would be able to make Mickey Mouse voices anymore.

 

[Lone Wolf '49]

Air Gas won't sell it to you unless you are on a guarantee contract. My contact said they have been threatened with getting fired if they break the rule. There isn't a shortage of helium, the problem is with the quantity AG buys. They are the largest buyer of helium. You can find it in about any other welding supply store. AG has decided that supplying the little guy is no longer in their best interest.

Curious, I have been out of the business for years, but Air Gas? Is that their name now? Back in the day it was Air Liquide or Liquid Air on SW 29th, starting in the mid to late 70's. Memory fails me, just wondering, because I believe their plant is still there if I am not mistaken.

 

[dowmace]

Curious, I have been out of the business for years, but Air Gas? Is that their name now? Back in the day it was Air Liquide or Liquid Air on SW 29th, starting in the mid to late 70's. Memory fails me, just wondering, because I believe their plant is still there if I am not mistaken.

I thought they were two different companies

 

[point and laugh]

It's the goverments fault. They are using several million cubic feet of it for 'survailance' in Asscrackistan.

 

[purplehaze]

freaking helium huffers

 

[cpolesen]

Now I wish I wouldn't have inhaled all those baloons just to sound like Daffy Duck. I'm part of the shortage problem. Sorry

 

[Lurkerinthewoods]

Curious, I have been out of the business for years, but Air Gas? Is that their name now? Back in the day it was Air Liquide or Liquid Air on SW 29th, starting in the mid to late 70's. Memory fails me, just wondering, because I believe their plant is still there if I am not mistaken.

 

[Dave70968]

Helium shortage?

Where'd it all go... isn't it still out there somewhere?

It's kinda like conserving water... as far as I know, all the water is still around. It's not like it leaves the planet or something.

Actually, that's precisely what it does. It's so light that it moves up to the highest levels of the atmosphere and ultimately escapes into space.