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by VaxWithSex 1280 days ago
It's a different environment than the sun and other isotopes are fused. The plasma is a lot less dense, with a lot less pressure but much higher temperatures. The current technology will not generate other elements. And Gold etc are not created in the sun via fusion. they are generated by a different process involving stellar catastrophies.
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It's a different environment which is in principle possible to recreate. First step is to get basic fusion working.