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Re:The Increasing Scarcity of Helium on Thursday June 18, 2015 @06:32PM (#9742015)
Dude. 87K =/ 4K. 87K>77K. That means its worse than nitrogen, which is dirt cheap and fairly useless for serious cooling. Even run-of-the-mill superconductor magnet cooling is a stretch for nitrogen, let alone exploration and exploitation of more exotic quantum effects.

Quantum tech needs helium.