Comment by elashri
7 days ago
I just did a funny exercise (details are not interesting) to estimate how long would LHC and Alice need (assuming perfect conditions and ignoring any limitations) to get enough gold to fund FCC (15B CHF assuming today's gold price in CHF) on their own. And it would take about 185 billion years of continuous run. A reminder that the universe is about 14 billion years (ignoring the hubble tension for our purpose here)
It would probably also cost more to produce gold than you get out of it so it is effectively infinite time.
No, negative time!
So we don’t need to worry about diluting the gold supply from LHC, it’s the asteroid mining that’s going to do it.
You’re assuming they would attempt to produce gold exactly the same way. The process would likely evolve to become better. What happens if you add a growth rate?