sweno Wrote:Is this efficient? not even close. In terms of time/cost/output anything we currently have is a much better bet for generating power.Yeah.
If we want to crate large quantities of power I'm still rooting for fusion reactors.
If we ever get around to using antimatter as a power source and making antimatter in any quantity [size=smaller](I'm not holding my breath here)[/size], it'll be because we need it for applications that require the output of an entire power plant but don't have room or carrying capacity for that plant to be on-site. [size=smaller](Ion thrusters on interplanetary spacecraft that take less than a decade to get from planet to planet, for example – that's one thing that Star Trek got right, even if it was applied way past the end of the curve.)[/size] The matter-antimatter reaction would be the equivalent of a battery charged at (and using the entire output of) a power plant, not a power plant itself.
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