book

Antimatter - The World's New Fuel Sound

21 Pages 1015 Words 1557 Views

The most commonly used fuel source today is fossil fuels. The chemical process of the combustion of Octane (Common gasoline) is [2C8H18(Octane) + 25O2(Oxygen) ~> 16CO2(Carbon Dioxide) + 18H2O(Water)]. These fossil fuels release massive amounts of carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide allows plant life to exist, but in too large amounts the carbon dioxide disables heat form leaving the planet and thus leads to global warming. Many people are looking for a solution to this problem and one solution is using antimatter as a fuel source. The process of creating antimatter is when positrons and anti-protons combine with their counter parts in this universe. Positrons are the opposite of electrons and anti-protons are the opposite of protons. When matter and antimatter combine they release gamma radiation and energy. Gamma radiation can be turned into heat energy, but that's for another paper. Antimatter has been around since the dawn of time, literally. “There was matter and there was antimatter. When they met, they annihilated each other and created light. Somehow, it seems that there was a tiny fraction more matter than antimatter, so when nature took its course, the universe was left with some matter, no antimatter, and a tremendous amount of light” (Wollack). At the start of the universe The Big Bang took place, and the matter and antimatter collided with matter being the victor. We should use antimatter as a fuel source. Antimatter is clean, releases massive amounts of energy, and has limitless potential. Antimatter is perfectly clean, unlike all fossil fuels used to date. Many people were hit by the global warming scare a few years ago and the energy crisis that continues on. The combustion of octane yields 16 carbon dioxide atoms per 2 octane atoms. There are millions of octane atoms per drop of fuel, and each drop yields 8x more carbon dioxide than octane used. “American's consumed 138,496,176,000 gallons in 2010” (American Fuel

Read Full Essay