Antimatter Mass Production
Antimatter Mass Production — Terra Invicta technology. Antimatter, nature's ultimate battery, requires huge amounts of energy to produce in mass quantitie…
About Antimatter Mass Production
Antimatter Mass Production is a Terra Invicta technology in Energy with a research cost of 125,000.
Antimatter, nature's ultimate battery, requires huge amounts of energy to produce in mass quantities.
A frustrating paradox: matter/antimatter-based reactors could solve our every power need, both on Earth and in space, but the creation of sufficient antiparticles in the first place requires vast amounts of energy, not to mention vast and costly machines. It is not, for instance, even remotely practical to install a 30m antiproton decelerator of the sort housed at CERN within every starship. Yet more problematic is that even our most advanced particle accelerators achieve only 0.01% efficiency in terms of converting electricity to antimatter, with the remainder becoming heat - as problematic as it is wasteful. The proposed solution is vast arrays of solar panels in space, powering antimatter factories whose output is then magnetically trapped, ready for transport to spacecraft and terrestrial reactors. In consequence, we have truly achieved the power source of tomorrow.