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Apostastrophe t1_jeepz5v wrote

Reply to comment by iwoodificood in James Webb Space Telescope finds no atmosphere on Earth-like TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet by locus_towers

Antimatter is an excellent power source but think of it more like a battery, or an energy storage device than providing energy in and of itself.

You can collect some from radiation belts if you have efficient enough facilities, but your best way to create antimatter would be to have something like a dyson swarm collecting lots of solar energy to run a type of particle accelerator and continually collect the small amounts of antimatter it creates for storage.

Then you use the antimatter as an extremely energy dense and efficient portable energy source for things like space ships or deep space space stations in combination with fusion reactors.

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iwoodificood t1_jefm6jl wrote

Thanks for the explanation, those are super cool ideas. To an extent, my original comment was in jest, as I really find the guesswork of how future technology will evolve to be quite bold. The assumptions we make of them seems a bit much.

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