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- Subject: RE: *** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP ***
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:45:13 GMT
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- Henry Spencer's ramscope talk sparked a question in my small mind. How can
- we talk about the performance of antimatter propulsion without knowing
- the mass fuel ratio? How much hardware does it take to contain a "tank" of
- antimatter (magnetic fields, etc.)? Does anyone have the input required
- for insertion into the rocket equation???
-
- Also, I have seen a graph of anti-mmatter production in the world that
- shows is rising on an exponential curve. (antimater is produced by all
- the big collider folks). Now, suspending my engineering training and
- thinking like a normal liberal economist, the exponential curve showed us
- producing a kilogram of antimatter by the year 2050 or so. That's not
- to long from now....
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- How do they contain the antimatter before injection into the collider? If
- I remember correctly they have it going around in a racetrack in a holding
- facility, no???
-
- Grant Anderson
- Ganderson@jedi.decnet.lockheed.com
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