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Posted on 07/28/2025 4:40:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
A Silicon Valley startup claims it can turn mercury into gold.
San Francisco, California-based Marathon Fusion is proposing a process that uses nuclear fusion to turn mercury into gold — something that has been sought by people for thousands of years.
"Unlike previous attempts, our method is massively scalable, pragmatically achievable, and economically irresistible," Marathon Fusion said on its website.
"Using our approach, power plants can generate five thousand kilograms of gold per year, per gigawatt of electricity generation (~2.5 GWth), without any compromise to fuel self-sufficiency or power output."
In a Cornell University scientific paper submitted July 17, Marathon Fusion said it's possible to use high-energy neutrons from a fusion reactor to bombard mercury-198, turning it into mercury-197, which then decays into stable gold-197 over a matter of days.
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Back to the drawing board!!
> A Silicon Valley startup… <
Interesting article there. Anyway, yer pick.
A. The company will soon issue stock and look for investors. Better get in on the ground floor! This is the next Microsoft.
B. The company will soon issue stock and look for investors. Then declare bankruptcy a year later. A classic “pump and dump”.
Cynic that I am, I’m going with B, mainly because of the phrase “it’s possible” in the last sentence of the excerpt. Way different than “we’ve proven”.
reminds me of this [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZFuKHXa7w&t=10s[/url]
Percy: (rushes out the living room, dirtied) My Lord! Success!
Edmund: What?
Percy: (drags Edmund into the living room) After literally an hour’s
ceaseless searching, I have succeeded in creating gold. PURE GOLD!
Edmund: Are you sure?
Percy: Yes, My Lord! Behold! (uncovers the top; their faces get bathed in
green light)
Edmund: Percy, it’s green.
Percy: That’s right, My Lord.
Edmund: Yes, Percy, I don’t want to be pedantic or anything, but the colour
of gold is gold — that’s why it’s called gold. What you have dis-
covered, if it has a name, is some green.
Percy: (stupefied; picks up the green) Oh, Edmund, can it be true? that I
hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest green?
Edmund: Indeed you do, Percy, except, of course, it’s not only a nugget as
it is more of a splat.
Percy: Well, yes, a splat today, but tomorrow, who knows? or dares to dream!
If this ever becomes reality then the County of Santa Clara is sitting on a gold mine. Back in the seventies the county bought the New Almaden mines. (Quicksilver Park) I am a trail watch volunteer so now I will start to stash the Cinnebar that i see from time to time.
” Crazy ‘bout a Mercury...”
If they can turn Uranus into gold, why not Mercury?
The company would be looking at it as a by-product of the nuclear process. Kind of like using waste heat to keep the building warm and powered through the use of nuclear power. Since you’re using nuclear power anyway, those costs are set. However, with a minimal set-up, you could also be turning mercury into gold.
I’m not sure if that is a wise policy, because we may eventually find some process that needs mercury and results in mercury becoming more valuable than gold.
Well the Bible does speak about a time:
That does present a problem. Plus how long is it still “hot” from radioactivity?
Another thread about this without a Twilight Zone reference. Disappointed again!
“They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.” (Ezekiel 7:19)
People been turning music into gold since 1979
“power plants can generate five thousand kilograms of gold per year, per gigawatt of electricity generation (~2.5 GWth)”
Not to worry. All of our “spare” power goes to AI to make cat images and to charge EVs.
Hmm, what’s the nuclear binding energy for Mercury compared to Gold?
I think they are saying 5K kilograms of gold per 2.5 Gigawatthours of energy production.
Yep, but many a treasure hunter is still looking for those sunken Spanish galleons loaded with that silver and gold!
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