Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 02:30:58 PM

Quote from: Hueristic on May 02, 2025, 11:17:59 PM

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Scientists Discover a Fungus That Produces Real Gold — And You Can Grow It at Home

https://techoreon.com/discovery-of-fungus-producing-real-gold-grow-at-home/

sadly, it doesn't actually turn other metals into gold
massive amounts of energy required

You weren't expecting a nuclear mushroom were you?
(Not Hiroshima - I mean a fungus that enacts nuclear reactions by moving protons and neutrons from one atom to the next.)

Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 02:30:58 PM

It essentially catalyzes this reaction somehow:
Au_(s) + O₂^- + 2 H₂O_(l) = Au(OH)₄^- (log K₂₅ = -1.91)

Ah, well, disappointing indeed.

Quote from: Hueristic on Today at 02:35:17 PM

maybe in old mines that the previous tech didn't allow for a final refining process?

Or feeding it tons and tons of sea water? That's the first source of gold on earth, as I suspect many of us know. Unfortunately, it's so diluted that we'd need a really huge pile of hungry fungus, without any cardiac problems, so not afraid of a salt-rich diet.

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Quote from: Hueristic on Today at 02:35:17 PM

a viable en-devour

I hadn't noticed this. The WO seldom disappoints Wink

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