Marathon Fusion turns mercury into gold, beating CERN's record by 10X; fusion reactor underway in SF
_sholtodouglas · x · 2026-10-22
Marathon Fusion reports back-to-back breakthroughs: last month it demonstrated high-rate alchemy by converting mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN's record by a factor of 10; last week it enriched isotopes in the world's most powerful plasma centrifuge, breaking a Soviet record that stood for 40 years. The startup is now building a fusion reactor in San Francisco targeting record power density. Sholto Douglas queued up to see the first gold object made via alchemy.
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