The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

  • Zier
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    23 days ago

    Gold is not worth anything. Humans assigned a value. It’s all made up.

      • Zier
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        116 hours ago

        Gold does have a purpose, my point is that the value of gold, paper money, diamonds, caviar, etc. is assigned and not a real number.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 days ago

      It’s a better conductor than copper. Doesn’t oxidize like copper. Could be very useful if I’m the far future it could replace copper.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 days ago

        It’s actually a worse conductor than copper. It’s just used for contacts because it’s nearly as good of a conductor and it doesn’t oxidize. If you want a better conductor than copper then you want silver which to my knowledge is the best conductor out of all the base elements.