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Fusion releases energy when producing items lighter than iron. It requires energy to create atoms heavier than iron via fusion. It would cost huge amounts of mo
by tasty_freeze 3y ago
Fusion releases energy when producing items lighter than iron. It requires energy to create atoms heavier than iron via fusion. It would cost huge amounts of money to produce an ounce of silver or gold that way.
- xenonite 3y agoHowever, the gold standard is no more.
- ThomPete 3y agoI am not talking about tomorrow. I am talking about the potential of what you can do with the energy density.
- nradov 3y agoRegardless of energy density, creating gold in a fusion reactor will still be more expensive than digging it out of the ground. We are far from exhausting that natural resource.
- ThomPete 3y agoAgain yes, but that's not the point. The point is you can't do that with any other energy source.
- HappySweeney 3y agoSeeing as the only known way the universe makes the stable isotope of gold is through colliding neutron stars, I doubt you can do that with fusion either.
- ThomPete 3y agoWell you can.