# Aakash Gupta on Silicon Valley: “A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into rea…”

> A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold, and their own math says gold is one of the cheapest … — 7.3K likes, 949 reposts on X.

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- **Updated:** 2026-10-26
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- **Author:** @aakashgupta
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- **Rank today:** #3 of 14
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22 06:26 UTC

A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold, and their own math says gold is one of the cheapest things their machine can make. Aim it at a different metal and it makes a cancer drug ingredient worth tens of billions of dollars a gram. Here's how it works. When you fuse two kinds of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, every single reaction kicks out a neutron moving at 14.1 MeV, which is absurdly fast. Fire one into mercury-198 and it knocks another neutron loose on the way through, so two come …

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