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Alchemy is so hot right now. (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] 42beansinapod@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I thought they were going to make helium since it is non-renewable and humans are using it at an unsustainable rate.

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[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

No, silly, we'll make infinite gold and use that to purchase infinite helium.

Foolproof!

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Feel like that's a eventual when the profit margins get right.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that half the plan of Helion Energy?

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Helion got really quiet since that last venture push :)

I've seen a few pretty solid questions about the lack of shielding around their running equipment being a red flag that their output is nowhere near what they claimed.

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They have extremely poor diagnostics on their plasmas on top of everything else.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Can we not spam neutrons at hydrogen?

There's a lot of hydrogen.

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