RE: Anti matter - the fuel of the future
Hey
During the big bang an unequal amount of matter and antimatter were created. For every billion antimatter particles a billion and one matter particles were created. We have theories but no solid evidence as to why this happened. This is one of the mysteries of the early universe.
This is not correct. At the big bang time, an equal amount of matter and antimatter was created. The asymmetry came later (and is a motivation for beyond the Standard Model theories).
The main reason why it has been studied so much is because it has a 100% conversion rate of mass into energy.
This is again not correct. Fundamental physics is not studied for its practical applications as first motivations...
Except this, how would you store antimatter and use it for practical purposes? We are far from being able to do so. Creating antimatter is one thing, storing it is another thing.
Moreover, you are not considering the energy needed to create antimatter. If creating antimatter costs more energy than the energy that will be released in an annihilation process, you cannot claim it is the fuel of the future.
it takes a lot of expensive tools. That is the reason the government will fund it....
magnetic fields
I don't think you understand......batteries can take more energy to make.....gas....rocket fuel.... they store it extremely well and that is why they are used.
What I am saying the following. In order to produce antimatter, you need to provide some energy. If what you need to provide is larger than what you get, in this case, using it as fuel is not viable.
PS: Thanks for updating your post btw.
You dont understand....... It does not produce more power it is a store of it. We can use it to power things not connected to a grid.......or in other words......fuel.....
No I don't understand. Antimatter does not exist in nature. Before storing it, you need to produce it, don't you?
It doesn't need to produce more energy than was used to create it........it only needs to produce energy........
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fuel
here is the definition of fuel
I think you are the one not understanding. Before being able to use anything, you must produce it. If the costs necessary to produce this thing exceed the gains, it is not economically viable.
You do not seem to understand at all what antimatter is, how to produce it and how to store it. That's all. Read more about it and then come back to me. This conversation leads to nowhere.
batteries cost more to produce then the power they produce.......
It is literally a battery......it stores power for use on something that is not connected to a grid.......we don't connect cars to the grid.....we need something that can move them that doesn't weigh that much for example.....it would take more power to produce but you can't connect cars directly to a power grid.......you need a fuel