The far more likely scenario is that large quantities of gold are extracted from the asteroid belt. Short of someone inventing a Star Trek style replicator it just won’t ever be cost effective to create something like gold through manipulation of individual atoms. Even if we had that tech in a reasonable cost effective form it would be used for making actually rare elements not something as abundant as gold.
Yes, you are right. Gold will be made in factory reactors, but those reactors may be used to make/supply other more profitable elements based on industrial demand.
The far more likely scenario is that large quantities of gold are extracted from the asteroid belt. Short of someone inventing a Star Trek style replicator it just won’t ever be cost effective to create something like gold through manipulation of individual atoms. Even if we had that tech in a reasonable cost effective form it would be used for making actually rare elements not something as abundant as gold.
Yes, you are right. Gold will be made in factory reactors, but those reactors may be used to make/supply other more profitable elements based on industrial demand.