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Good point... I forgot that you have to make your own antimatter.

I had a few other curious questions, but due to the fact that I know so little that I don't know how to word them properly and concisely. I will ask them after I have done some *quick* digging around. Btw thx for such quick reply.

Antimatter is not a source of energy, you need to put energy in to produce the antimatter and, unless you also collect the matter for later use, you throw half the energy away. At best it could be thought of as a means of storing energy for later use, but that would need improvements in our means of storing antimatter. As it is, magnetic bottles can only hold charged particles, neutral antimatter is lost.


You make a loss overall. There is an awful lot of energy that goes into the creation, more more than the energy of the matter-antimatter produced [e.g. the electric and magnetic fields, powering all the equipment, etc.] A fusion reactor is designed around a potention process where you get a nett energy out.


ITER decided to build the main tokamak at Cadarache in France after a little hiatus.

There is no authoritative result that I'm aware of, at least I've never received a satisfactory response whenever I've asked the question "How could you determine if a distant star/galaxy was made of matter or antimatter?". The antihydrogen project has been making changes in their experiment so as to be more efficient in production and trapping, with the eventual hopeful goal of mapping the spectrum of antihydrogen. If it turns out that its spectrum is different than that of hydrogen's, then that would provide an easy answer; if the spectra are identical, then we're back to hunting for neutrinos as you've suggested, I think.