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The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 19 points 1 week ago (14 children)

but five tonnes of gold out from mercury for every gigawatt (~2.5 GWth) of electricity generated.

They are gonna spend more time carting away gold than generating electricity. If this is real, and I have my uneducated doubts, why would they tell anyone about it? They will be wildly rich with such a proven gold generation source.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Not once they've produced enough gold to make it worthless.

Aluminum used to be one of the rarest, most-precious metals on earth. Now it's used as a disposable container.

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