https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gMiKnW87M
Lab Gold Is Coming (This Is the Real Trap)
A fusion company says it can transmute enriched mercury-198 into gold. The physics is real, but the enriched mercury costs approximately $15,000 per milligram while the gold it produces is worth about 14 cents per milligram, a ratio of more than 100,000 to 1. No commercial fusion reactor exists anywhere on Earth, the best-case output would add a tenth of one percent to the world's annual gold supply, and the product is radioactive for 14 to 18 years. Meanwhile, the internet reached for the diamond analogy: lab diamonds crashed diamond prices by 90 to 95 percent, so lab gold will crash gold. But diamonds were never genuinely rare. De Beers controlled 85 percent of supply and manufactured scarcity through vaults and marketing. Gold's scarcity is a law of physics, not a boardroom decision, and no company on Earth controls it. At the very same moment, central banks are buying gold at a record pace, year after year, while the total money supply grows at its fastest in years and sovereign debts are too large to ever repay honestly. Felix walks through every number, explains the diamond sleight of hand, and closes with the heartbeat pattern he watches in the gold mining shares.
Key points in this video
The fusion gold claim: real physics, fantasy economics
Mercury-198 costs vs gold value: more than 100,000 to 1
Why no commercial fusion reactor exists
Printable vs un-printable: the long, slow war
Why lab diamonds are the wrong comparison
De Beers, manufactured scarcity and the $7 billion write-down
Central banks buying gold at record pace
The hours-of-work inflation measure: 100 hours then, 300+ now
The heartbeat scanner pattern in gold mining shares
What is coiling and what is not
Felix
26.10.26
#felix #gold
Lab Gold Is Coming (This Is the Real Trap)
A fusion company says it can transmute enriched mercury-198 into gold. The physics is real, but the enriched mercury costs approximately $15,000 per milligram while the gold it produces is worth about 14 cents per milligram, a ratio of more than 100,000 to 1. No commercial fusion reactor exists anywhere on Earth, the best-case output would add a tenth of one percent to the world's annual gold supply, and the product is radioactive for 14 to 18 years. Meanwhile, the internet reached for the diamond analogy: lab diamonds crashed diamond prices by 90 to 95 percent, so lab gold will crash gold. But diamonds were never genuinely rare. De Beers controlled 85 percent of supply and manufactured scarcity through vaults and marketing. Gold's scarcity is a law of physics, not a boardroom decision, and no company on Earth controls it. At the very same moment, central banks are buying gold at a record pace, year after year, while the total money supply grows at its fastest in years and sovereign debts are too large to ever repay honestly. Felix walks through every number, explains the diamond sleight of hand, and closes with the heartbeat pattern he watches in the gold mining shares.
Key points in this video
The fusion gold claim: real physics, fantasy economics
Mercury-198 costs vs gold value: more than 100,000 to 1
Why no commercial fusion reactor exists
Printable vs un-printable: the long, slow war
Why lab diamonds are the wrong comparison
De Beers, manufactured scarcity and the $7 billion write-down
Central banks buying gold at record pace
The hours-of-work inflation measure: 100 hours then, 300+ now
The heartbeat scanner pattern in gold mining shares
What is coiling and what is not
Felix
26.10.26
#felix #gold
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