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Marathon Fusion CEO @kylecschiller explains how turning mercury into gold could make alchemy a trillion-dollar industry: "Mercury and gold are literally one proton away. There’s one bit in there, if you can flip this, you’ve created a different element." "Particle accelerators, cyclotrons, these technologies have existed. There’s just nothing out there that really takes us up to the trillion dollar level. Fusion will." "People compare this to synthetic diamonds or aluminum. Aluminum prices…
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years. Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.