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funny thing is, wind and solar were originally touted as “free” – looks like it will be a ridiculously expensive process to actually convert it into a format we can use in a system created around fossil fuels. (I think of fossil fuels as sunlight anyway – isn’t the story that the sunlight is synthesized into plant matter which rots into oil–or gets eaten by dinosaurs who then rot into oil-then gets used by us as fuel? it occurred to me…photosynthesis is probably a pretty efficient process and if it took 4 billion years to create all that oil and we are going to blow through it in a couple hundred, the ratio is never going to work…on the other hand, the earth is a giant spinning magnet which i believe is the very definition of an electrical generator…maybe there is “free” energy after all – Tesla seems to have thought so)
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People tend to forget that alchemy is indeed possible, it’s just prohibitively expensive.
[Sarcasm warning] For the “sake of society” why don’t we just have the government subsidize alchemy and provide the gold to the impoverished? What’s not to like?
Here’s an article from a few years ago which details the process:
Fact or Fiction?: Lead Can Be Turned into Gold
The punchline, as was the case in the article at the beginning of this thread: It takes about $5000 to produce a particle of gold so minute that special devices are needed to detect its existence.
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