Silicon Valley Startup says that it has found a way to convert mercury into gold, if proven then gold prices can be done.
Techno-Economic modeling of marathon fusion shows that such a setup can make gold production as valuable as the plant generates electricity.
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- The marathon fusion claims to convert mercury into gold using nuclear broadcasting
- According to the company’s estimates, a fusion power station with a gigawatt capacity can produce about 5,000 kg of gold every year using this approach.
- Beyond gold, the company says that similar atomic procedures can also be used to make other high-value materials.
A fusion energy startup claims that it has turned the mercury into gold. According to a Financial Times report, San Francisco -based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that can one day represent an infinite source of clean energy can also be used for literal alchemy. As is extended in a-to———–has has a wide—–wers, an element or isotope effectively, by taking out the proton out of its nucleus, can be used to synthesize gold particles, by converting the proton out of its nucleus. “On paper, it looks great and everyone still talks that I am intimate and excited,” the physicist of the Department of Energy, Ahmed Dialo, who reviewed the study, told the Financial Times.
In the last three years, Marathon Fusion has raised about $ 6 million in investment and $ 4 million in government grants, focusing on its efforts to make the fusion power system more efficient.
Nevertheless, despite the decades of research, the concept of copying conditions in the Sun’s core to produce pure positive amounts remains extremely elusive. Scientists are starting to crack only the point on which fusion plants generate more energy, as they need to be operated. Scale is proving to be equally difficult to score these tasks, in which scientists have struggled to include extremely high-energy and unexpected plasma within a heavy complex reactors.
Earlier this year, the marathon attracted its attention to nuclear broadcasting, proposed to introduce a mercury isotope, mercury -198 into a fusion reactor to convert it to mercury -197. It is used to realize fusion inside a reactor in addition to traditional fuel, such as lithium and hydrogen isotopes.
But this time, there is an interesting side effect: Mercury -197 is an unstable isotope that eventually spreads to Gold -197.
While this process is unproven, the dollar signs – or gold ingots are seen, as the case may be the case. CTO Adam Rutakowski and CEO Kail Shilar say they can produce 11,000 pounds per year per year of power generation, and without affecting the overall power generation of the system.
The marathon claims that its success technique may allow the fusion reactors to produce gold as a bonus bypractor, without reducing the energy production of the technology plant or compromising on its own fuel cycle. According to the company’s estimates, a fusion power station with a gigawatt capacity can produce about 5,000 kg of gold every year using this approach.
The firm notes that when the gold made through this transmission process will be stable, it may still be present to detect the amount of radioactive isotopes. This may mean that gold will need to be safely stored until it is safe or sold 18 years ago.
Techno-economic modeling of marathon shows that gold production in such a setup can be as valuable as electricity that generates electricity, effectively doubles the commercial capacity of a fusion facility and dramatically re-shapes the economic matter for fusion energy.
Beyond gold, the company states that the same atomic procedures can also be used to create other high-value materials, such as “nuclear batteries,” medical isotopes for healthcare, and components for precious metals such as palladium.
As a result, the imaginary fusion power plant can theoretically double its revenue, claiming.
The CTO also suggested that the significant insight here is that it can be used in a set of rapid neutron reactions for a really large amounts of sleeping fuel cycle requirements of the system. Of course, it is not as simple as that. For one, other gold isotopes made in this process can make valuable metal radioactive, which may mean that it will have to be stored anywhere from 14 to 18 years, before it is safe to handle.
Even with mass boom in new startups, fusion reactors are not yet practical yet practical to attract billions of dollars in investment to transform reactors into a viable form of energy production.
