Yellowstone holds potentially untapped cache of 'carbon-free' helium for rockets, reactors and superconductors - Live Science

Conventional helium production comes with enormous carbon emissions, so scientists are looking for alternatives in places like Yellowstone, Tanzania's Rukwa Rift and India's Bakreswar-Tantloi provinceIt has been more than a decade since scientists discovered that Yellowstone holds huge amounts of helium gas, but questions remain over whether this helium could ever be extracted to address critic…