Massive Underground Helium Reserve Found in Tanzania

[Emc2]

Underground pockets of helium gas discovered in the Rift Valley region of Tanzania are now thought to be around twice as large as initially reported, according to new research by scientists from the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom.

When the discovery was announced last year, independent resource assessors estimated that the underground gas deposits in Tanzania contained around 54 billion cubic feet (1.5 billion cubic meters) of helium, mixed with mainly nitrogen gas. But, a reanalysis of the helium concentrations in the gas deposits indicate they may hold more than 98.6 billion cubic feet (2.8 billion cubic meters) of helium gas.

In Photos: Massive Underground Helium Reserve Found in Tanzania

 

[Safari_ni_Safari]

Helium is used as a cooling medium for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the superconducting magnets in MRI scanners and NMR spectrometers. It is also used to keep satellite instruments cool and was used to cool the liquid oxygen and hydrogen that powered the Apollo space vehicles.

 

[MOTOCHINI]

Mungu ibariki Tanzsnia

 

[Zuwenna]

Nchi hii Mwenyezi mungu kaipatia kila kitu
Tumebaki kutumia Akili tu

 

[logania]

Good news...

 

[varangati]

Nchi hii Mwenyezi mungu kaipatia kila kitu
Tumebaki kutumia Akili tu

Sasa sahivi hatutumii akili tunatumia naniliu ........

 

[hewizet]

bichwa la mwendawazimu!! mikataba itakua ya siri nawaza tu hapa kwa ujinga wangu

 

[Zuwenna]

Sasa sahivi hatutumii akili tunatumia naniliu ........

Hayo niyako

 

[mzado]

Hizi baraka zawezageuka mkosi kama tusipo zitumia vema..

 

[orina]

This is not good news unless a Tanzanian will invest in this (which they won't) don't expect any FDI anymore with the hostility towards investors by the Tanzanian government, like what they did to Dangote