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To: Blood of Tyrants

In nanogram amounts.

The amount of energy required to make economic quantities of gold would be enormous.

No one has yet made a fusion reactor that can produce even a few kilowatts of electric power as anything but short pulses, and that technology is still a long way away.

The capital cost of a 1GW nuclear plant is around $6B, in theory (the costs of meeting regulations and time uncertainties are almost incalculable).

The value of five tons of gold is around $106M, so the payback time for the $6B capital investment is close to 60 years. That’s just doing back-of-the-envelope calculations, and not counting overhead and operating costs, just capital.


41 posted on 07/28/2025 5:12:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

About 25 ounces of gold per kilogram of gold, at 12 troy ounces per pound.

3K dollars per ounce = 75k dollars per kilogram of gold.

5K kilograms x 75K dollars =375 million dollars per year at 2.5 Gigawatthours per year.

The article says gold would be a byproduct, not a cost of operation.

All theoretical, of course


46 posted on 07/28/2025 5:22:40 PM PDT by marktwain
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It’s *not* a fusion reactor. It’s a fission reactor. Hot neutrons that are a product of the fission reaction fuse with Hg nuclei - that’s the fusion part.


61 posted on 07/28/2025 6:46:50 PM PDT by Merrick (Not a fusion reactor)
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