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by tasty_freeze 1134 days ago
Fusion releases energy when producing items lighter than iron. It requires energy to create atoms heavier than iron via fusion. It would cost huge amounts of money to produce an ounce of silver or gold that way.
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I am not talking about tomorrow. I am talking about the potential of what you can do with the energy density.
Regardless of energy density, creating gold in a fusion reactor will still be more expensive than digging it out of the ground. We are far from exhausting that natural resource.
Again yes, but that's not the point. The point is you can't do that with any other energy source.
Seeing as the only known way the universe makes the stable isotope of gold is through colliding neutron stars, I doubt you can do that with fusion either.
Well you can.
However, the gold standard is no more.