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It's right there in the article: it mentions welding of aluminum foil seals - for helium.

I have also worked with high vacuum in lab exercises. There's a leak finder apparatus using helium because helium creeps through the smallest leaks - but they have to be leaks! Hydrogen just diffuses through anyway, though not quickly through thick metal (I have that from Wikipedia).



...so, uh, any idea why balloons suck?

I assume it would be way more expensive but if it lasted for decades or more...


I have to read up on this.

I have seen a YT on someone doing this in a lab env but I always assumed that you can't contain it indefinitely




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