Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold
Subject in Physics
Nuclear transmutation of mercury into gold has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Salim IsmailFounder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots
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
Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
Wissner-Gross hopes transmutation will make gold so abundant that it undermines gold as a store of value.
“I would love to see a transmutation industry drive all these gold bugs off the cliff through transmutation of mercury and other elements and make gold too cheap to meter”
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 1:57:17
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
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.