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Henry Spencer's ramscope talk sparked a question in my small mind.  How can
we talk about the performance of antimatter propulsion without knowing
the mass fuel ratio? How much hardware does it take to contain a "tank" of
antimatter (magnetic fields, etc.)?  Does anyone have the input required
for insertion into the rocket equation???

Also, I have seen a graph of anti-mmatter production in the world that
shows is rising on an exponential curve.  (antimater is produced by all
the big collider folks).  Now, suspending my engineering training and
thinking like a normal liberal economist, the exponential curve showed us
producing a kilogram of antimatter by the year 2050 or so.  That's not
to long from now....

How do they contain the antimatter before injection into the collider?  If
I remember correctly they have it going around in a racetrack in a holding
facility, no???

Grant Anderson
Ganderson@jedi.decnet.lockheed.com