a helium party balloon should cost £75

Professor Robert Richardson, of Cornell University, New York, who won the Nobel physics prize in 1996 for his research on helium, argues that a helium party balloon should cost £75, to reflect the true value of the gas used. Yet you can buy enough helium to float 200 balloons for that price. “We are squandering an irreplaceable resource,” he says.

Source: Helium stocks run low -- and party balloons are to blame | Science | The Observer

added 2012-03-19T10:38:23Z by anders

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