Antimatter Cost

[glitterboy2098]

yet stripping electrons from the plasma itself is by far the most efficent way to obtain power. otherwise your basically stuck with thermal or photovoltaic processes, which are far lower yeild.

[azazel1024]

Something to consider, other than possibly opening a rift to a dimension where anitmatter is the standard type of matter, a TW device that just creates antimatter is going to be a poor investment.

IIRC the annihilate spell does something like 2d4x100MD. Since antimatter comes fairly close to pure energy conversion, you can't really get much more damaging than sticking the antimatter with normal matter. So whatever energy is generated can't be more powerful than what you can use with that.

So by that logic, if you have a laser cannon in your power armor that does 4d6 MD...congratuations, you created enough MD to power that laser cannon for about 40 blasts at best...which is maybe roughly 2 1/2 minutes of the power armors reactor at full power maybe.

That isn't an insignificant amount of power, and really damaging...but you would have to pump the PPE in to the TW Antimatter creation device hundreds of times to be able to power a suit of power armor that has an antimatter power supply that would last a few years of normal use. Tens of thousands of PPE is just a wee bit of mystical energy just to "power up" a suit of PA.

Just a thought.

[azazel1024]

yet stripping electrons from the plasma itself is by far the most efficent way to obtain power. otherwise your basically stuck with thermal or photovoltaic processes, which are far lower yeild.

It is not necessarily power efficient and it has the downside to killing your fusion process. You'd be quenching the plasma, as once the electrons are stripped all you are left with are the atoms, or positively charged ions as it were. Plasma is just a "gaseous mixture" of equal amounts positive and negatively charged ions (in the case of a fusion tokomak reactor, atoms stripped of their electrons and the electrons themselves) distributed equally throughout.

You'd still have super hot ions, but it wouldn't be a plasma any longer, which changes dramatically the magnetic and electrical properties.

The most efficient way we know of generating power is through a magnetohydrodynamic turbine in combination with thermophotovoltaic generation and thermoelectric generators. You could probably add in some direct radiation conversion with all those high energy neutrons.