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Helium-3

The answer to our power needs?

A researcher claims that a shipping container of helium could power the UK for a year. Can this possibly be right?

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This article is about estimating and using order of magnitude calculations to solve a problem. It also uses the physics of nuclear fusion and the ideal gas law.

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