Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Moab Moab
from the article: Helium is extracted from deep underground, where deposits of the gas have built up. pray tell us, how did the helium deposits get there ? On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: The world faces an unimaginable fate: the demise of the helium

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Moab Moab
wikipedia1: the oil industry flares 150 × 10^9 cubic meters natural gas annually, wikipedia2: the concentration of helium in natural gas varies in a broad range from a few ppm up to over 7%. assume average 0,1% of flared gas is helium: 150 x 10^6 cubic meters goes to waste every year. that must

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Robert Lynn
Accumulated alpha particles from radioactive decay collecting in gas trapping rock formations. Basically a non-renewable resource after we have worked through available supplies of shale gas. Helium can be extracted from the atmosphere - about 5ppm, but will probably cost ~$5000/kg. Nuclear

RE: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
This may have already been discussed here, but what are the prevailing theories that attempt to explain why there is so much helium trapped in natural gas formations? It makes no sense to me. What causes He to be trapped in these formations in first place and not somewhere else? I seem to recall

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:38 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: This may have already been discussed here, but what are the prevailing theories that attempt to explain why there is so much helium trapped in natural gas formations? The formations which trap

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:23 AM 9/24/2012, Terry Blanton wrote: If Dr. Storms is right, we might produce helium from hydrogen in his cracks. Well, not if he is right, the conclusion Storms presents that PdD cold fusion generates helium is not speculative, it's solid and deserves, at this point, to be

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Producing the world's energy consumption with PdD cold fusion would produce roughly 900 metric tons of helium per year. In my book, I estimated 1,227 tons of helium per year. I talked to a variety of people and had them check the numbers.

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: I think there is evidence that cold fusion can increase the reaction rate of some conventional reactions. See Reifenschweiler. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Save the Balloon! - effect on nuclear decay of the chemical environment

2012-09-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:38 PM 9/24/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: I wrote: I think there is evidence that cold fusion can increase the reaction rate of some conventional reactions. See Reifenschweiler. Well, no. That isn't cold fusion. It's LENR. That is, there are nuclear reactions that are known where the

[Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The world faces an unimaginable fate: the demise of the helium balloon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19676639 Only LENR can save us! ;-) Jeff