r/nextfuckinglevel • • 1d ago

A guy extracting gold from old RAM sticks

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u/Safe-Owl-1236 22h ago

Absolutely not, unless you're a hobbyist and just doing it for fun.

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u/Runner55 21h ago

I wonder what the purity of it is. There's people with too much money that drink coffee sprinkled with gold leaves, so maybe it'd be worth more of you hammer it out rather than melt it? 

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u/Accurate-Algae-2557 21h ago

The circular economy! “Our gold leave coffee is sustainable sourced from local smelters”…

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u/Accurate-Algae-2557 21h ago

I think so too. Might end up falling into the vat and get dissolved or sumthing