# Evan Luthra on Silicon Valley: “THIS IS INSANE!!! A San Francisco startup says it just turne…”

> THIS IS INSANE!!! A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold. The company is Marathon Fusion. Th… — 6.4K likes, 976 reposts on X.

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- **Author:** @EvanLuthra
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- **Rank today:** #4 of 14
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22 12:42 UTC

THIS IS INSANE!!! A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold. The company is Marathon Fusion. This week they announced they'd made stable gold using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record CERN set in 2025. CERN's record was 29 picograms over four years. So nobody's pouring bars yet. The method is what got me. You hit mercury-198 with a fusion neutron. It loses a neutron, becomes mercury-197, and over the next few days decays into gold-197. The exact same gold sitting in central bank vaults. Their 2025 paper says a one-gigawatt …

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