Humanity is thoughtlessly wasting an essential, non-renewable resource
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There's an extensive network of helium plants and pipelines located above where the United States has a naturally rich store of helium, but if we don't conserve it, we are dooming ourselves to a future where we simply live in a state where we have insufficient helium resources. It will take hundreds of millions of years for Earth to replenish its helium stores naturally.When helium was discovered on Earth, its unique properties immediately lent itself to a myriad of scientific uses.
A few years later, scientists were able to isolate helium in a laboratory by chemically treating igneous rocks, separating the noble gases from the atoms they were bound together with. It might seem surprising that such a common ingredient in the Universe is so rare on Earth, but with a little science, it's easy to see why.
An illustration of a protoplanetary disk, where planets and planetesimals form first, creating 'gaps' in the disk when they do. As soon as the central proto-star gets hot enough, it begins blowing off the lightest elements from the surrounding protoplantary systems. A planet like Jupiter or Saturn has enough gravity to hold onto the lightest elements like hydrogen and helium, but a lower-mass world like Earth does not.
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