Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?
Observations from soundings are important inputs for assessing turbulence that may impact air travel, marine weather, fire ...
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CT has a helium balloon problem, lawmakers and advocates say. What’s being done to solve it.
Senate Bill 1154, introduced in the Environment Committee on Jan. 24, would ban any lighter-than-air-gas or helium balloons entirely and impose fines for violators. Current law allows the release ...
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What the Global Helium Shortage Means for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Because helium is in finite supply, its availability is largely contingent upon the natural gas industry ... is nearly ubiquitously associated with balloons, Kornbluth says the major players ...
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As helium prices balloon, hopes rise that northeast Minnesota has big deposit of the gas
Helium is best known as the ultralight element used to lift party balloons and the Goodyear Blimp ... could prove an ideal hiding spot for the gas. In the helium industry, Abraham-James said ...
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What’s Up in Northern Minnesota? Helium.
But a gas? One that’s known to most of us for lighter-than-air party balloons? In fact, helium is one of the world’s most commercially important elements. It’s used in semiconductor ...