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It would be great if (a) you could safely prevent it from releasing its energy when you don't want it to (KABOOM!), and (b) you could efficiently capture and use the energy it releases, which is going to consist largely of gamma rays.

Now where did I leave that dilithium?



CERN manages to safely capture antiprotons and move them around


I can safely move around three eggs at a time, moving 3e9 eggs at a time is slightly more difficult.


A container ship loaded up with packaged eggs in containers could move 3e9 eggs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/49v7ik/requ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship


Sure, but not nearly enough for practical energy storage and retrieval.




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