If there’s a helium shortage, why can’t we make more by shooting electrons at hydrogen?

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If there’s a helium shortage, why can’t we make more by shooting electrons at hydrogen?

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It’s super expensive to make atoms in a particle accelerator. Helium costs about $65 per kg, and you can’t make a kg of anything in a particle accelerator for $65. We only have a shortage at the price people want to pay.

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