Exactly. Everyone is underestimating how strategically important helium is for basically everything because it's a nonreactive, inert gas. It's also scarce compared to most other gases.

Amazon funding the build out of twelve helium-cooled SMRs in the US aboutamazon.com/news/sustainab…

In the #SiliconDesert, Fab 52 is @Intel’s fifth high-volume fab at our Ocotillo Campus. Our facility will produce the most advanced logic chips in the United States and is part of our $100B+ investment to expand domestic operations. #IntelTechTour #IntelInvestsInUS

Helium storage is “a new game” in the global helium market, with billions of cubic feet now held in underground salt caverns and the major industrial gas players investing in storage sites. gasworld.com/story/helium-s… #gasworld #industrialgas

Semiconductors now account for over a fifth (21%) of global helium demand, surpassing MRI applications for the first time, driven largely by chips powering artificial intelligence (AI) across Asia and increasingly worldwide. gasworld.com/story/helium-s… #gasworld #industrialgas

Too little investment is being directed toward helium exploration in North America, just as the region is on track to become a net importer. gasworld.com/story/more-inv… #gasworld #industrialgas

Melting titanium with the sun. Here's a really cool new industrial energy project. A 106 MW solar + battery project, entirely behind the meter, will be installed alongside a new $500M titanium melt facility in WV. It will supply 70% of their power.

This is ~4 percent of the world's airships.

SK Hynix: Even under conservative assumptions, the HBM market is expected to grow at an average annual rate of more than 30% over the next five years. Bullish 🔥

Video | AI, semiconductors, and space: the industries behind growing helium demand dlvr.it/TNxxB5 #gasworldUS #industrialgas

X-energy is making rapid progress in the licensing process for a facility that will provide TRISO fuel for its HTGRs. The first batch of fuel will go to its Dow Chemical project. Article link in reply. The NRC has completed a draft environmental impact evaluation, and is now

Big fusion breakthrough/acceleration NVIDIA, General Atomics, and other partners have built an AI powered digital twin of a fusion reactor. Running inside NVIDIA Omniverse and powered by RTX PRO Servers and DGX Spark, this system can simulate and control plasma, the stuff stars

Woah. High altitude tethered wind turbines maybe finally a thing? Chinese company Sawes just demonstrated a 1 megawatt turbine operating at 1,000 feet! linkedin.com/posts/kaiser-y…

Decades ago, the US invented a new type of nuclear fuel that is safer and allows for the creation of small reactors that can be placed near cities, data centers and battlefields. Then, er, well, we let China race ahead with the technology while we sat on our hands. Here's our

2/2 The SK Group plans to spend ₩140 trillion won (US$98 billion) at 2 massive complexes. Chip unit SK Hynix’s new M15X Fab in Cheongju, South Korea, started equipment installation 2-months ahead of schedule, while the Yongin location, set for 4 large fabs and ₩120 trillion of

More smart investors betting that passively-safe helium-cooled reactors are the future

A reliance on China for the raw materials used to produce specialty gases remains one of the biggest risks in the semiconductor supply chain, according to Lita Shon-Roy, President and CEO of Techcet. gasworld.com/story/western-… #gasworld #industrialgas

Two Pennsylvania congressmen are pushing to fill what they see as a big missing piece in US semiconductor policy: support for the materials that chipmakers rely on long before a wafer ever hits the production... gasworld.com/story/us-bill-… #gasworld #industrialgas

Largest TRISO production capacity in America today. Largest in the world by mid-next year. TRISO is just the start. This is The New Standard.

Palmer Luckey Widespread MRI usage done at least annually with AI reviewing the data would greatly improve wellbeing and mortality