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Ponietz

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6. I saw on Reddit that Marathon Fusion is a start up with this very idea

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Oct 30, 2025, 12:33 AM

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Fusion Startup Says It's Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

https://www.reddit.com/r/STEW_ScTecEngWorld/s/1h9k15laLp

Also, there’s the account of James Price.

James Price was an 18th-century English alchemist who claimed he could turn mercury into gold. When challenged, he agreed to prove it before credible witnesses. But instead of performing the experiment, he drank prussic acid and killed himself in front of them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/s/6bQPfrQ5KD

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Transmutation of Mercury into Gold. [View all] NNadir Wednesday OP

Great. Now EVERYBODY knows, thank-you very much. Note to self: sell off gold holdings. marble falls Wednesday #1

Don't worry; be happy. No one is building a modern Clementine reactor. If they did, it wouldn't smash the market. NNadir Wednesday #2

he ALWAYS ruins stuff...ask him about perpetual motion! ret5hd Wednesday #3

Ironic considering that mercury is often used to mine/separate gold, polluting the environment. Norrrm Wednesday #4

I got an old thermometer somewhere in the house. 3Hotdogs Wednesday #5

This would depend on whether you have a high energy gamma source in your house. NNadir Friday #7

Doesn't Radio Shack sell gamma generators? 3Hotdogs Yesterday #8

Ah...Radio Shack. Some still I exist, I believe. As a first time father, anticipating the life of fatherhood... NNadir 17 hrs ago #9

So you were a science dork. I was just a plain dork. But let me tell ya about my grandson. Now 16. 3Hotdogs 16 hrs ago #11

That boy will be necessary to rebuild America after the ongoing fall. NNadir 16 hrs ago #12

I saw on Reddit that Marathon Fusion is a start up with this very idea Ponietz Thursday #6

I'm skeptical that anyone will build a fusion reactor as reliable as a fission reactor, at least not in the lifetime... NNadir 17 hrs ago #10