Found this one some days ago.
Thanks to CMDR Arcanic for pointing out I should cash in my data ASAP.
Thanks to CMDR Arcanic for pointing out I should cash in my data ASAP.
Found something rare - a helium gas giant
- Thread starter kurgubigelzi
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To head off the uninformed brigades, this should not be confused with the far more common Helium Rich Gas Giants. There have only been three Helium Gas Giants found with proc gen names.
Nice find!
Nice find!
You can fill all the balloons in the universe with the atmosphere of that planet. Maybe even have some atmoshpere left.
Now if only we could harvest and sell all that helium. According the the USGS in 2019 the price of Helium for 1,000 cubic feet was $119. 1,000 cubic feet is 5.05kg so that makes it $23.56 per kg.
Your helium gas giant is 15 earth masses. One Earth mass 5.972 × 10^24 kg so your planet is 15 x that, or 895,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. If we assume we could harvest at least 20% of that, then 179,160,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg is available at $23.56kg that is $4,221,009,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth ($4.2 trillion trillion) if you could actually sell it all, but of course supply/demand economics, the price would crash, oh well... I won't bother.
Edit: It has come to my attention that the actual helium content of the giant is only 0.4% so.... um, it's only $16.8 billion trillion dollars. Sorry to everyone that kickstarted my project assuming a higher return potential. I'll refund your contribution once mining has started and we verify the real numbers.
Your helium gas giant is 15 earth masses. One Earth mass 5.972 × 10^24 kg so your planet is 15 x that, or 895,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. If we assume we could harvest at least 20% of that, then 179,160,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg is available at $23.56kg that is $4,221,009,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth ($4.2 trillion trillion) if you could actually sell it all, but of course supply/demand economics, the price would crash, oh well... I won't bother.
Edit: It has come to my attention that the actual helium content of the giant is only 0.4% so.... um, it's only $16.8 billion trillion dollars. Sorry to everyone that kickstarted my project assuming a higher return potential. I'll refund your contribution once mining has started and we verify the real numbers.
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I already hazzed it.
All you have to do is find a buyer for that volume of helium. Somehow keep the price given the glut of supply. Not spend more in whatever method you have to collect and deliver the stuff.
Well I can never resist calculating useless things so....
According to this chart there is 0.5 cu ft of helium in a standard balloon and 0.5 cu ft = 0.0025 kg. So taking from my other post that means we could fill about 71,664,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 balloons (71 trillion trillion).... I predict a shortage of latex is next. We need to find a latex giant planet.
Edit: Adjusted for actual helium content of 0.4% the number is only 284 billion trillion balloons. This amount of latex should be available at your local leather goddess of phobos discount outlet store in Sol.
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That may be more balloons than there are estimated atoms in the universe.
Maybe we could use elephant butt leather instead of latex? I heard @Old Duck has plenty.
Well estimated # of atoms in the universe is between 10^78 and 10^82.
So plenty less baloons than # of estimated atoms.
Look in EDO, I hear the planets look plastic.
They are "rare." Similar to Green Gas Giants...although almost four times more of them have been found than Helium Gas Giants.
Don’t wake the duck!
Me neither. But when you add those 3 constituents percentages up they come a bit short of 100%. So, of the rest, helium probably is more abundant than hydrogen, making the planet belong to class 'Helium Giant'.
You could install for example Elite Observatory and check your Journals for them.
I don't think you'll find any, but there's the possibility, even if very small one.
Hmm... So 0.01% helium remain is enough to get it into helium giant class?
Not entierly sure, but I think I did seen some gas giants that had bit of % of helium at thier atmoshpere details, wich surerly those planets where not helium giants, out of many thosands that I seen (and scanned).
Kinda confusing it is, but its elite dangerous, so I should be not suprised by this.
Most gas giants in game have around 70-75% hydrogen and around 25-30% helium in their atmospheres. Higher than 30% helium content can make them Helium Rich, but as long as hydrogen is more abundant they're not Helium Gas Giants.