Monthly Archives: January 2013

Helium price goes way up high

Worldwide shortage of gas affects various businesses, industries Francey Freeman has seen the cost of doing business go sky-high. Prices for buying helium to fill balloons and rental tanks at her Balloons Fantastique in Fort Worth have dramatically increased in … Continue reading

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Helium Shortage Deflates Store Profits And Party Fun

New Year parties were filled with the traditional noisemakers and champagne bottles fizzing; however, any balloons that were dropped were probably sad and droopy-looking, filled with just a little bit of helium, if any at all. A worldwide shortage of … Continue reading

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A Brave New World Of Balloons On A Stick

Only hydrogen is more abundant in the universe than helium, but here on Earth the element that floats party balloons, cools medical instruments and brings smiles to parades is in short supply. No, the world’s not running out of helium. … Continue reading

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Our Research Is On Ice Due To Shortage Of Helium

At the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, we have had to temporarily shut down our cryogenic laboratory equipment.Our multimillion-pound magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility must operate at temperatures of near-absolute-zero degrees Kelvin (-273C), but this month they will not be maintained … Continue reading

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Helium-filled Disk Drives Could Lift Western Digital

A line of helium-filled, 3.5-inch format hard disk drives is likely to elevate Western Digital Corp. to the top of the enterprise disk drive market, predicts market researcher IHS. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, now a Western Digital subsidiary, announced last … Continue reading

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