Helium is running out!

You may think that helium is just good for filling up your balloons to help them fly or make your voice all high-pitched, but it has a lot more uses than that, and it's running out. No, we can't make artificial helium, either. Helium is made from the nuclear fusion process from the Sun or by slow and steady radioactive decay of terrestrial rock. Experts say that the Earth could run out of helium between 25 to 30 years, and this would cause a problem for us. Helium is used for several things besides filling up balloons: cooling down MRI scanners, deep-sea diving to avoid problems breathing normal air under high pressure, inflating air ships and blimps and is safer to use and nonflammable compared to hydrogen, helium's used for cleaning rocket engines, to estimate the age of rocks, and is used in telescopes. The Earth is 4.7 billion years old, and has used that entire time to accumulate its helium, and it will only take 100 years to waste it away. Although helium gas is running out, it is sold at a ridiculously cheap price, and once it is released into the atmosphere as a balloon or boiling helium, it is lost to the Earth and cannot be retained again.

This topic is science related because helium gas is a natural resource and is developed in a slow and steady process, by the Sun's processes of nuclear fusion and of radioactive decay of terrestrial rocks. Those processes are slow enough, and the Earth has taken up 4.7 billion years to accumulate our helium. With the uses of helium in our work, helium could be gone in just a generation. Helium gas is part of our atmosphere, and after billions of years of work, we are wasting it in such a small fraction of time. Without helium, deep-sea divers can't breathe underwater to find discoveries and may come up with breathing problems.

This is an important topic because again, it took a very long time for the Earth to accumulate the Earth, we should be grateful for her work and helium for its uses, and it's sold at a very cheap price. Helium gas is being underrated and taken forgranted by us, being sold at a cheap price for something that's running out, and for the simple uses to the complex situations. With helium being a valuable gas, helium balloons should be sold at a much, much higher price to show the precious gas it contains. Helium gas just can't be wasted away in just one generation and poof!, be something that the Earth once had and down in history for such a short period of time on Earth.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-the-world-is-running-out-of-helium-2059357.html