CERN ( the way to a new fuel)
In this time of high gas prices the promoters of so called "Green Fuel" programs have a Conflict of interest because they are doing this only because they stand to make tons of money. Programs like corn ethanol, solar energy, and wind power. While these new fuels are clean they are NOT the fuel of the future. The real "fuel of the future" is anti-matter. Currently the most efficient fuel source is nuclear at approx. 2% efficient. Anti-matter however is 100% efficient that's right 100% efficient. Here's an comparison between anti-matter and nuclear. With nuclear power only 2 % of all the matter is converted to energy. the still leaves 98% of the total matter which is nuclear waste. However, anti-matter, when "mixed with an equal amount of matter", converts all the matter into energy in a massive explosion. To put this in perspective 1 teaspoon of anti-matter is enough to sent the space shuttle into orbit 60 times or, if I remember right, power all of New York City for a year. Right now the only problem with anti-matter is the cost to make it. Example: it would bankrupt the United States to make just one teaspoon of it. However with labs like CERN or the Fermilab building bigger and bigger supercoliders and findings ways to more efficiently make anti-matter the price is dramatically declining and will continue to do so until it becomes affordable to make. The bad news about this is that like all technologies there are groups who would like to weapon this and if a terrorist got enough anti-matter and matter that was the equivalent of an average person they could destroy an entire Continent like North America. This is the power and efficiency of anti-matter and why we should allow CERN and other labs to build their supercoliders. Beause while it can be used for evil the potential of good as a source of energy and fuel is enormous.
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posted by Terry Ray Williams at
5:57 PM
4 Comments:
Live to learn... not to throw out incorrect information. There are enough politicians doing that already.
What's up with this anti-matter being 100% efficient? How do you make it, how do you store it? That will always cost energy, thus it can never be 100% efficient. Same goes for ethanol from maize, that's currently barely running even taking into account 'well-to-wheel' measures.
As for CERN, that has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with your anti-mater fancies. Even if it could create it efficiently and in huge amounts (which it does not and will ever do) it would never be capable to capture, or let alone store it.
To Anonymous,
Here's how I get 100% efficient. While it is currently cost prohibitive and extremely inefficient to make anti-matter is 100% efficient to use and here's how. When you 50% anti-matter with 50% normal matter they annihilate each other and turn into pure energy with no waste. as far as caputre and storage when produced, Although currently in minute quantities, it is captured and stored in an electro-magnetic trap called a Penning Trap, otherwise without the electormagnetic trap it would annihilate itself and the container it's in. Finally about CERN having nothing to do with anti-matter. There are currently only two labs that produce anti-matter and they are the Fermilab (just outside of Chicago) and CERN
To Anonymous,
P.S. As to how it is made, anti-matter is created by collisions of high-energy partciles. However unlike corn ethanol it is theorized that anti-matter does occur naturally in space. So, not wanting to "throw out incorrect information" I refer you to a few books on this subject. They are Visions, Parallel Worlds, and Physics of the Impossible, all by Dr. Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics in New York
A note of correction the first book i refer to is wrong. the correct book is Hyperspace, not Visions, that talks aboutr antimatter.
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