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[โ€“] Eranziel@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not really familiar with the proposed scale of fusion plants, but how do you get to 120t/day? The paper says the theoretical gold output is 2t/GWth/year.

[โ€“] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

then I am way off. I read off blury thumbnai, GWh-thermal. Your version makes it negligeable gold production.