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GenerWork
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Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN
How could we harness this energy and make it usable?
remarkEon
4 months ago
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You use it to boil water.
Symmetry
4 months ago
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You can even dissolve the uranium in the water and use the same substance for both fuel and propellant and so capable of reaching far higher temperatures than those that would cause any engine to melt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
fooker
4 months ago
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The real question is if we'll get back hole or antimatter powered steam engines before GTA 6
0-_-0
4 months ago
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It's almost a meme at this point
fooker
4 months ago
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If I knew that, I'd probably have more important things to do than comment it here.
einpoklum
4 months ago
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You could pen a carefully-worded a letter of demands and send it to some Billionaire? A bit on the risky side, but - hey, you only live once etc.
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