• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Can I remind everyone that it is impossible to produce helium in a practical way?

    Sun has been doing it for millions of years and it’s a big dumb ball of energy.

    Incidentally…

    Is it practical? No. Is it producing any Helium right now? No. Is it probably just a big investor scam? Sure. But still more practical than trying to conquer Iran.

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      7 hours ago

      That doesn’t actually sound like they intend on producing usable helium though. That sounds like they intend on doing a really difficult and expensive fusion reaction to produce helium 3, which they will then use in a cheaper and easier to do fusion reaction, and the end result of all of that should be electricity and no net new helium since it’s expensive and rare AF and they need it all to make the whole process remotely plausibly profitable.