Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 15 hours agoCould have an interesting impact on the gold market if it can be done at scale.
Before figuring that out, they just need to develop a functioning fusion reactor. And since fusion energy is, as it has always been, a mere ten years off, it’s probable that such reactors will take longer to be developed than it will take that radioactive gold to be safe to handle.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Well getting more energy out of a fusion reactor than you put in is the really hard part, if you’re just doing it to make gold I imagine it’s easier
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
maybe you could use an h-bomb to do it, those have been around since 1951
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Well that’d be fusing hydrogen, so an Au-bomb maybe