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Helium is an essential material for research and medical equipment, but it’s nonrenewable and difficult to recycle (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can make it in unlimited abundance in fusion reactors. The difficulty in fusion wasn't producing elements, it was doing so profitably, and now even that's starting to crack. You can even make a novelty fusion reactor on your desk if you wanted to, it isn't exactly hard.