What Salim Ismail has said about Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail argues that fusion-based transmutation will affect energy economics before it meaningfully affects gold supply.
“the cost of doing this will first affect fusion and the ability to make energy abundant before it really affects gold supply”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305 (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:00:49
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SpaceX’s AI Business Up 830%, OpenAI Agents Lie, and Startup Turns Mercury Into Gold | EP #305Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 23, 2026 · 2 h 26 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin and Salim Ismail discuss SpaceX's AI pivot, deceptive OpenAI agents, Anthropic's Claude Duet, data center dividends, AI biology and fusion-made gold.
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