[Blood of Tyrants]

If this is true, it would mean the value of gold would go to nothing almost instantly. And the value of mercury to soar.

I don't know that much about nuclear physics but then alchemists have been chasing the translation of lead to gold for centuries.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I’m the queen of England.

[ifinnegan]

I’m starting a company that can spin hay in to gold.

[Mark]

2.5 GWth— Back To The Future.

[Seaplaner]

Mercury and gold appear next to each other in the periodic table, and differ by one proton (80 - 79)

[DugwayDuke]

Nothing like increasing the money supply by five thousand kilograms of gold per year. Which would result in five thousand kilograms of inflation per year.

[b4me]

not as impressive as spinning straw into gold.

[9YearLurker]

But can they turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse?

[marktwain]

If this is true, it would mean the value of gold would go to nothing almost instantly. And the value of mercury to soar.

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No, because it is driven by a fusion reaction. There are no functioning fusion reactors at this time.

The reaction theoretically reduces the cost of operating a fusion reactor because it produces gold from mercury as part of the reaction process. It would help hold down the price of gold, but probably would not reduce it to zero.

[PGR88]

yes, its quite easy.

First, get yourself a fusion reactor.....

[Jonty30]

My chemistry teacher said that it was believed by some that is how France always seems to have gold to sell.

[Flaming Conservative]

Are they a publicly traded company?

[palmer]

A GW for a year is 8,760,000,000,000 Wh or 8,760,000,000 kWh or $262 million at the cheapest power prices about 3 cents per kWh. For 5,000 kg of gold that's $52,000 per kg or $52 per gram.

Current gold price is $106 per gram. So they would cut the gold price in half at best. At worst they would have higher power and overhead costs.

[blackdog]

Jack has magic beans again I see.

[Sacajaweau]

Mercury is expensive. Superman used coal.

Back to the drawing board!!

[Leaning Right]

> 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”.

[Jeff Vader]

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!

[Psycho_Runner]

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.

[A strike]

” Crazy ‘bout a Mercury...”

[ansel12]

If they can turn Uranus into gold, why not Mercury?

[boatbums]

If this is true, it would mean the value of gold would go to nothing almost instantly. And the value of mercury to soar.

Well the Bible does speak about a time:

“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)