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Hopefully this doesn't accelerate the likelihood of a helium shortage. Helium, as a abundant as it is in the universe, it is a finite and important resource on the earth.

A lot of scientific and medical equipment depends on it.

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Vaguely related - super conduction at warm temperatures (haha, it's still pretty chilly around those windings but liquid nitrogen isn't too expensive) isn't too far off according to MRI manufactures and the various articles I have seen here in recent times. At $100k ish per quench, the service contracts sure looks like a good option when you have 3 or 4 of them in a year!

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