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I too, have noticed the massive uptake in propaganda, as of late, against any form of alert or warning to the USA’s depleting Helium reserves.

Not only is the US helium reserves in dire need of patriotic oversight and immediate suspension of ALL sales until a comprehensive GAO audit/investigation can be completed; the US should also demand an investigation on the give-away & disposal of Helium in it’s reserves as well. That’s right, not only is the US selling off its reserves at a cost that defies believe (compared to what it cost foreign interests to mine/manufacture crude helium to it’s pure state), the US is giving away it’s helium by trade agreements or in classified projects which list foreign interest.
One last area that boggles the mind is how the US is “disposing” millions of cubic feet of Helium, without a solid reason.
Take a close look here and then research more in-depth on your own:
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/helium/heliumcs04.pdf

Be careful of anyone like the poster “James Bond” who reasoning is unsound and indirectly tries to bring doubt to someone with such a great name as Robert Richardson. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the importance of such valuable rare non renewable resource as helium, would never attempt to mislead people into thinking that it is not important or that Americans should not pay attention when their helium is basically being stolen from them while right under their noses. Hey “James Bond”, even though there is untold tens of billions of barrels of crude oil, would you foolish argue that we should not be concerned with it as a resource? Every word you write, is nothing more than a spin on the facts and I would guess that you work for a company which needs cheap helium or like “Johny V” said, you are payed to misdirect the American public so that your people/country (China or India?) can steal one of the only valuable things the US does NOT need to import! Matter of fact, Helium is one of the only things that it does not purchase from other countries and at the same time manufactures, as well as mines from crude to pure, all within it’s own borders.

Yes, Americans MUST wake up and take back their great country…. and spot traitors like “James Bond” who is doing everything they can to keep people ignorant of the REAL facts. Sadly, the USA has been taken over from the inside out by a handful of traitors and foreigners who are still loyal to their mother lands.

You are full of sh@t friend.

Your type, who spin the facts with misdirection and strawman arguments, will always be spotted by those with a keen eye.

You dare openly mock and question the intelligence of a Noble pize winning scientist as Robert Richardson but you leave not proof of your background… although we can gain an insight by what you call yourself: “James Bond”.

Fancy yourself a spy or the like? Or do you have a vested interest to be the first to always leave your false, misleading propaganda on any web story attempting to warn Americans to do something against the sell off of this extremely valuable resource?

BE WARN MY FELLOW AMERICANS, IT SEEMS THAT TRAITORS FROM EITHER THE CORPORATE SECTOR OR FOREIGN INTERESTS ARE INUNDATING AND ATTEMPTING TO SUPPRESS STORIES SUCH AS THIS ONE. This article was VERY WELL DONE and THE WARNINGS HERE MUST BE HEEDED.

Americans must wake up to the traitors in our own government who are SELLING OFF EVERY VALUABLE RESOURCE WE HAVE LEFT AT PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR!

No country can ANY WHERE NEAR the Helium stock piled in the USA and strangely every time anyone writes a warning or tries to post the truth, as seen here, it gets attacked by traitors such as “James Bond”.

The BOTTOM LINE IS THAT HELIUM IS A VERY VALUABLE RESOURCE AND WASTING ANY RESOURCE SHOULD NOT BE DONE. Facts are that China and India are acting like leaches and are quietly RAPING the USA of our helium supply, fact. Research how much helium that they PUBLICLY post, never mind what they are truly taking behind close doors.

Many insiders have been warning Americans that traitors are giving away Americas helium supplies to foreign governments without direct oversight. PLEASE FIGHT FOR AMERICA BY CALLING CONGRESS TO DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OUTRIGHT THEFT OF THE USA HELIUM SUPPLY TO FOREIGN INTERESTS.

WAKE UP my fellow Americans, or sleep forever in the disgrace of our own apathy!

I know this won’t happen (at least for a long time), but I would like to see helium balloons completely removed from the market. Not only are they a main contributing factor to the helium shortage, but they also pollute the earth after popping in the atmosphere and falling back to the ground.

Another thing: when America has no helium left, we will have to start buying it from some countries that we aren’t exactly friends with.

This is much more important than helium baloons, if helium 3 runs out we will find low temperature research slowing down/stopping.

why should we care about low temperature? Well, while your cell phone doesnt work at minus270 degrees, it was only possible for us to make cell phones because research done on silicon at very low temperatures helped us understand how things work. computers harddisks, display screens…. everything we have developed over the last 50 years stems from low t emperature physics research in some way.

And its more than just Robert Richardson, helium three cannot be bought on the market anymore for love or money. Oxford Instruments which makes cryostats for research labs recently had to buy helium three on the black market for an undisclosed amount. and I know personally that two professors at City university of new york have been travelling to labs of old /retiring scientists trying to scavenge helium 3 for their cryostat. the scarcity is just a fact of life now, james bond needs to work in a lab or start filling his party balloons with hydrogen….jsut keep a fire extinguisher handy.

I am an MRI technologist, what happens to my job in a few years.

We use helium to protect our magnet, occasionally it gets quenched
which means the helium escapes into the atmosphere.

thank goodness it does not happen often, only when there is a major
elctrical or magnetic issue.

> Gold is another example…inflated prices havent stopped a lot of its consumption.
That price increase is driven by hoarders/investors, not consumption. See also Tulipmania… *grin*

In this case, the market price is driven down by the decision of the US gov to dump He on the market, depressing prices. It would be an interesting experiment to stop selling and see where the price would stabilize, then sell when it rises above that.

According to numbers I’ve looked up, the worldwide production is about 2 billion CF each year and usage is about 6 billion. That is a big and expensive gap and I’d feel a lot happier knowing that at least the US is moderating it’s sell-off to wean us off gently rather than crashing in 2015. Asymptotic curve, anyone?

And Terry S, the helium leaves the atmosphere fairly fast as the atoms move fast enough to head off into space. Sorry I don’t have the half-life numbers…

Hmmm…First the “But if…”, then a guess at the future cost based on today’s technology. I wonder how much it would have cost to recover helium from the air in 1925 when the US first started stockpiling it? And this is after he was quoted as saying:

“Once helium is released into the atmosphere…it is lost to the Earth forever, lost to the Earth forever,”

Really? This from a Nobel Prize winner?

Gold is another example…inflated prices havent stopped a lot of its consumption.

I’m reminded of our super left wing city government. they spout off rhetoric about conservation and such for water consumption. Then – they turn around and raise the rates because everyone is lowering consumption and the city is not making any money as a result of NOT selling ENOUGH water.

Use less = higher prices
Use more = higher prices.

when it comes to natural resources….the typical supply/demand logic simply doest not apply.

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/helium/mcs-2010-heliu.pdf

“As of December 31, 2006, the total helium reserves and resources of the United States were estimated to be 20.6 billion cubic meters (744 billion cubic feet). This includes 4.25 billion cubic meters (153.2 billion cubic feet) of measured reserves, 5.33 billion cubic meters (192.2 billion cubic feet) of probable resources, 5.93 billion cubic meters (213.8 billion cubic feet) of possible resources, and 5.11 billion cubic meters (184.4 billion cubic feet) of speculative resources. Included in the measured reserves are 0.67 billion cubic meters (24.2 billion cubic feet) of helium stored in the Cliffside Field Government Reserve, and 0.065 billion cubic meters (2.3 billion cubic feet) of helium contained in Cliffside Field native gas. The Hugoton (Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas), Panhandle West, Panoma, Riley Ridge, and Cliffside Fields are the depleting fields from which most US helium is extracted. These fields contain an estimated 2.7 billion cubic meters (96 billion cubic feet) of helium.” That says that 0.735 of somewhere between 4.25 to 20.6 billion cubic meters of total US helium reserves is contained in what used to be the National Helium Reserve. Those figures are just the US Reserves, and do not count the rest of the world. Russia and Algeria alone have another 3.5 billion cubic meters of proven reserves which have barely been tapped.
For some reason the latest Commodity Survey omits a lot of reserve estimates which used to be tabulated for foreign lands. However, the old surveys are still on line, so you can still judge for yourself. For example, the 2002 survey:

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/helium/330302.pdf

“Helium resources of the world exclusive of the United States were estimated to be about 15 billion cubic meters.” This is what it calls the reserve base, which simply means the figures have not yet been proven but are informed estimates.
By the way, 20.6 billion + 15 billion is 35.6 billion total cubic meters for the world. Just for the fun of calculating, that would fill 178,000 Hindenburgs, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.78 trillion party balloons.
The issue here is not necessarily that nothing is wrong with the way helium is being handled currently. It is simply the same issue which is present in every one of the “running out of X” scenarios. Namely, that whatever is settled should be based on informed opinion, not hasty and overly micro-focused conclusions based on inaccurate data.
Regards JB (Airship & Blimp Consultant http://www.airshipblimp.com)