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Anon wants to ride a zeppelin (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] Wirlocke 11 points 5 months ago

To add on the point of helium being expensive and valuable, it's also extremely important for supercooling MRI's and supercomputers.

I'd rather have more MRI's than zeppelins.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

So MRI helium is scarce because the required purity is very high to get the 4 Kelvin superfluid behavior. Helium for filling balloons (of the party type) is a lot, lot cheaper. I don't know exactly how that translates into airship envelope helium, but you can't take balloon-grade helium and put it in your MRI machine.

[-] Wirlocke 2 points 5 months ago

Huh, Today I Learn

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