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In <wwLXwB4w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper) writes:

>Sorry, couldn't quote all of this one.  

>Firstly.  I see what you are talking about _now_.  Sounds not too bad.  
>However, it still seems to me that carbon-catalyzed may be a great way to 
>go.  1) your carbon keeps coming back and 2) you won't have to carry 
>around what I see as becoming GIGANTIC amounts of antimatter.  So what 
>YOU are talking about is using antimatter as a partial source of the 
>energy to get the hydrogen to FUSE?  Sounds good thus far...

I didn't get the impression that that was what he meant.  After all,
if you have antimatter to use in heating the bulk of your exhaust
products, why do you need fusion?  You could probably get the same
sort of energy into the exhaust just using the antimatter.  Of course,
yuou couldn't cruise forever, but I wouldn't think it would require
amounts of anti-matter that would seem ridiculously large, given the
scale of such a vehicle.

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