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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] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the "fusion never" line.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They'd have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires