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No, we don't. No matter how you look at this, gold is not "created". Cold is extracted from gold mines, the only thing humans can do it try to find, but they si

by mjnaus 18y ago

No, we don't. No matter how you look at this, gold is not "created". Cold is extracted from gold mines, the only thing humans can do it try to find, but they simply can not create it. Key here is that the total amount of gold on this planet is finite - not the production or extraction rate - making it truly valuable. Same thing applies to other natural resources such as oil, natural gas and diamonds.

kragen 18y ago
Wait, you can grow diamonds in a laboratory.
- eru 18y ago
  But Carbon is finite, too. (And on the same note, Dollars are finite, too. We have to store the bits somewhere.)
  - gdee 17y ago
    >We have to store the bits somewhere. +1 for the fine, fine irony. Intended or otherwise as it might have been.
gdee 17y ago
>but they simply can not create it. I seem to remember reading that that's not the case anymore. As in, we actually can make gold through transmutation. The amount of energy required to do so is bigger than the "value" of the resultant gold tough.