{"id":219147,"date":"2025-07-31T12:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/silicon-valley-startup-claims-it-can-turn-mercury-into-gold"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:11:22","slug":"silicon-valley-startup-claims-it-can-turn-mercury-into-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/silicon-valley-startup-claims-it-can-turn-mercury-into-gold","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Startup Claims it Can Turn Mercury Into Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valley-startup-claims-it-can-turn-mercury-into-gold.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco, California-based Marathon Fusion is proposing a process that uses nuclear fusion to turn mercury into gold \u2014 something that has been sought by people for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike previous attempts, our method is massively scalable, pragmatically achievable, and economically irresistible,\u201d Marathon Fusion said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marathonfusion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noskim\">on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, California-based Marathon Fusion is proposing a process that uses nuclear fusion to turn mercury into gold \u2014 something that has been sought by people for thousands of years. \u201cUnlike previous attempts, our method is massively scalable, pragmatically achievable, and economically irresistible,\u201d Marathon Fusion said on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}