alt Hacker NewsA lot of the balloon use has switched to nitrogen (helium became much, much more expensive after the strategic helium reserve was sold off)
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ralferoo • yesterday at 6:34 PM
> balloon use ... helium became much, much more expensive
More than just from inflation? (sorry, not sorry!)
Nitrogen? That's basically just air, what good would a balloon be using nitrogen? Might as well just blow it up with your lungs. It's certainly not going to float in any case.