Comment Re:Increase public awareness (Score 2, Informative) 501
>What exactly uses Helium that is all that important?
>* At extremely low temperatures, liquid helium is used to cool certain metals to produce superconductivity, such as in superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging. >Helium at low temperatures is also used in cryogenics.
Aside from all the scientific experiments that need the helium for cooling, I wonder how you could consider magnetic resonance imaging as not being important.
>* At extremely low temperatures, liquid helium is used to cool certain metals to produce superconductivity, such as in superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging. >Helium at low temperatures is also used in cryogenics.
Aside from all the scientific experiments that need the helium for cooling, I wonder how you could consider magnetic resonance imaging as not being important.