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My reading was that, at best, the gold might be a minor by-product of a fusion reactor which was already paying for itself by generating electricity. And maybe
by bell-cot 1y ago
My reading was that, at best, the gold might be a minor by-product of a fusion reactor which was already paying for itself by generating electricity. And maybe an extra "Look, shiny!" pitch, to sucker dim investors with.
(If the cost of the fusion-made gold was (say) 400X the cost of old-fashioned mined gold - and you also had to wait 15 or so years for its radioactivity to die down - no bright investors who want to help scale that up.)
- metalman 1y agoan earlier story suggested that there was little downside or risk to making gold in a fusion reactor, if a fusion reactor can be built that runs long enough to transmutate mercury into gold, which is something that no one is doing or can project a time line for, so this is harmless hype.......that was inevitable.....cause it's baked into the physics anyway