The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

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    2 months ago

    Easier to get investors to just throw money at you than to actually make the product.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know why you got downvoted, this is genuinely the most likely reason. If they had proven this technology, they could fund themselves. Right now they just have a hypothesis

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        2 months ago

        Because Lemmy has that single person that downvotes everything. They probably think it’s their “cool thing” and we’re all wondering who it is and are always talking about them, but no one notices. It’s just normal to see a single downvote when there’s many upvotes.