190

The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

147 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago

Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium

A bunch of scrappy engineers made a next generation battery and sold the technology to the US government

The government never bothered to manufacture anything. Instead they sold everything to China and now they’re already releasing public versions of the batteries. Now the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

the US doesn’t have any knowledge on the batteries or even the factories to build them

hilariously based

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

The story is a trip

Every dumb and evil thing in amerikkka can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Every dumb and evil thing in ~~amerikkka~~ the whole world can ultimately be traced back to capitalist greed

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

xigma-male trade-offer

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Many such cases xi-cooking

this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024

190 points (100.0% liked)

chapotraphouse

13954 readers

771 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]