[AR] Re: helium (was Re: GH2 pressurization)
- From: Anthony Cesaroni <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 00:09:18 +0000
Helium is a renewable resource. Simply fuse hydrogen using solar power. How it
could of it possibly missed the proposed infrastructure bill escapes me.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
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Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
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Henry Spencer
Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2021 7:48 PM
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Subject: [AR] helium (was Re: GH2 pressurization)
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, roxanna Mason wrote:
Since the Bush protocol of scavenging helium from natural gas was
removed by obama, helium has become even more expensive...
Historical correction: neither Bush nor Obama had much to do with it.
The government monopoly on helium, and the scavenging program, were established
in 1925 under Coolidge, with changes made in 1960 under Eisenhower to permit
commercial competition. By 1996, the Federal Helium Reserve was $1.4G in debt,
and arguably had outlived its usefulness, and Congress (under Clinton) passed
the Helium Privatization Act to phase out government production and sell off
most of the government's reserve. But the details were not well thought out,
and there's been repeated tinkering since (most recently the Helium Stewardship
Act of 2013, passed with strong bipartisan support in Congress), generally
making a mess of the transition. The most recent shortages were set off by
Saudi Arabia's attempts to blockade Qatar, since LNG operations there now
produce a substantial fraction of the world's helium.
Henry
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