Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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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