Dear All
With the dust hopefully settling down the Helium crisis, I am
tempted to go a bit quantitative. Kindly bear with me.
With all the heartburn we are all experiencing with the Helium
situation, I could not help but wonder about the following. The
imminent shut down of federal Helium reserve, if the bill didn't sail
through to the office of the POTUS, is only set to start on October
7th. So, why this 'apparent shortage' for the past couple of months,
since the quantum of Helium gas flowing should have been the steady
state value until the dreaded shut down in Texas, is it not ? Most
probably I have missed something big in the news but I am not able to
add the numbers up when the retailers seem to be quoting a 40 to 50% cut
in their Helium 'quota' from the major suppliers. What accounts for
that 50% loss ? Is there some kind of 'squirrelling away' going on ?
Thank you for your valuable time.
Best Regards
Rajan
On 09/26/2013 01:49 PM, Olson, Dean wrote:
>
> All ---
>
> Great news. The Senate concurred in the House Amendment to the Senate
> Amendment to H.R.527
> <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:H.R.527:>, Responsible
> Helium Administration and Stewardship Act. The bill sailed through on
> unanimous consent.
>
> *_As a result in concurring in the House Amendment, the bill will be
> sent to the President for signature._*
>
> Also, here are two good links:
>
> http://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=351216
>
> http://naturalresources.house.gov/legislation/helium/
>
> Dean
>
> *******************************
>
> Dean L. Olson, Ph.D.
>
> Director, NMR Lab, 146 Roger Adams Lab
>
> School of Chemical Sciences
>
> U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
> 600 S. Mathews, Box 81-5, MC-712
>
> Urbana, IL 61801 USA
>
> Lab: 217-244-0564; Cell: 217-722-9432
>
> dolson_at_illinois.edu <mailto:dolson_at_illinois.edu>
>
> http://scs.illinois.edu/nmr
>
> *******************************
>
--
____________________________________
____________________________________
Rajan K Paranji, Ph.D.
NMR Facility Manager
Department of Chemistry
Room 65, Bagley Hall
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
*ph: 206 685 2581
fax: 206 685 8665
email:paranji_at_chem.washington.edu <mailto:paranji_at_chem.washington.edu>
____________________________________
Received on Wed Oct 02 2013 - 06:52:52 MST