I live near a business that has tank farms and piping for pressurized gases. They provide a lot of oxygen for health care use. If they can “manufacture” a gas, why can’t they make more helium?
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They don’t ‘manufacture’ it, they generally liquify air and separate the oxygen out. But it’s abundant in the air.
For Helium you can’t do that, only 0.0005% or something of the atmosphere is Helium.
you have to actually find pockets of helium in the Earth, it’s usually found near Uranium.
Also there’s a historical problem, there’s big deposits in the US and its price controlled. So there wasn’t a lot of incentive to find new deposits because you can’t get a fair market value for it.
As a result now there’s a supply problem.
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