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This Startup Claims It Can Turn Mercury Into Gold Using Fusion Energy and Scientists Are Intrigued
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, JUL 22 – Marathon Fusion aims to produce 11,000 pounds of gold annually per gigawatt using nuclear transmutation in fusion reactors, potentially advancing clean energy and precious metal synthesis.
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It sounds like charlatanery, what Marathon Fusion promises: the production of gold from another element. But in principle it could work. There would be only a few disadvantages.
Fusion Startup Says It's Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold
A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day represent a limitless source of clean energy could also be used for literal alchemy. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, nuclear transmutation — effectively changing an element or isotope into a different one by ripping out protons from its nucl…
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This is intended to make the production of energy economically viable by nuclear fusion – but the feasibility has not yet been proven.
Marathon Fusion claims that it merges mercury in gold. The technique would produce 5,000 kg of gold per gigawattt installed. The process would double the revenues of the next central merger. Alchemy could be made in nuclear fusion centres. Marathon Fusion, an American start-up, is praised for its ability to transform metals into gold. If it is confirmed, technology could result in huge gains for the green energy industry. How would Marathon Fusi…
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