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Comment by paulsutter

9 hours ago

Helium output from the Persian Gulf is about 5 million cubic meters a month. Which (liquefied) is about 40 truckloads a week

This article is just hysteria

Removing 30% of the supply of a very important, and completely irreplaceable for most of its uses, resource isn’t hysteria.

  • The point is it doesn’t take giant tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz to move this volume. It could be handled by tanker trucks going to Suez….

    • This has nothing to do with transport. Iranian drone strikes disabled a Qatari helium _production_ facility.