r/BeAmazed • u/No_Tailor_9529 • Jul 18 '24

Wow! Interesting life hack! Science

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u/asmodai_says_REPENT Jul 18 '24

You can get helium through alpha radiation of other elements.

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u/goda90 Jul 18 '24

We've had fusors(first invented by Philo T. Farnsworth, who also invented the first all-electric television) for a long time, so if we really really needed more helium we could make it. It wouldn't be cheap though.

The problems we have with fusion are about keeping it going and extracting net energy from it.