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Renegade 13 said:
Ah hell. All we need to do is begin to actually produce significant amounts of anti-matter. Current worldwide production per year is currently miniscule, but I was reading in Astronomy magazine that a quarter of an ounce of antimatter would provide sufficient energy to power all the world's lightbulbs for 20 days. Now that is a power source!
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Problem is, it would taken even more than that much energy to make a quarter of an ounce of antimatter, and there's no way we could perfectly utilize all of the energy released without loss.
It's the same problem with using hydrogen as car fuel - it makes an excellent energy storage medium, but unless you can find large amounts of it in a usable state in nature, it's useless as an energy
source. Sure, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It is rather less abundant on Earth, and most of it is in various compounds, such as oil and water.