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Marathon Fusion claims it can turn mercury into gold while creating clean energy (phys.org)

submitted 6 days ago by Domino@quokk.au to c/science@mander.xyz

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

Sounds great. I can't wait for the price of gold to crash. There are so many applications that would benefit from having a cheap chemically inert metal. Also, the electrical conductivity is pretty amazing, so I don't think the demand for gold is going down any time soon.

As it stands, gold is way too expensive, and we've had to come up with all sorts of exotic alternatives to it. The obvious choice has been sitting in front of our noses all this time, but price has prevented us from actually using it very much.