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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel: [QB] Sorry. You made some good points there. Question. If you were to fire a stream of antimatter into a chamber of matter in a gaseous state, wouldn't ALL of the matter be consumed if the stream were continuous? You'd have to let in a stream, close the chamber, let out the resulting plasma, and fill the chamber again. Also, don't you think that to work the system that way is a lot more complex and energy intensive? Creating magnetic fields strong enough to contain plasma requires A LOT of energy. Would it be efficient on a small scale (i.e., within the space of a chopped down nuclear rocket?). And where would the power for the containment come from? Certainly not from the M/AM reactor, because that's dedicated to creating the plasma. You'd need a secondary fusion reactor or something. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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