How to produce enough power to create a pair of proton-antiproton?

I've recently discovered something great: the Schwinger effect. It says that if you concentrate enough power thanks to laser into a single point in space, it will spawn a pair of proton and antiproton. We could then create easily antimatter for interstellar travel, electricity production and more!

But there is a problem: you need to deliver 4.3e+29 watt. Lets imagine we have the lasers that are able to deliver this energy, how can we produce it? How much nuclear power plants would be required?

But as antimatter pairs are dangerous because their annihilation is powerful, we should build the "antimatter factory" in orbit in space (or should we?), we can't only rely on nuclear reactors, as they would be to costly to send in space. I've read that to power these lasers, we would need 2,000 kilometer square (20 times Paris' surface area) of photovoltaic panels.

It's a solution, but do we have enough materials on Earth to produce these gigantic and weak solar panels? Wouldn't the solution be to combine nuclear reactors AND solar panels, or rely on possible future energy sources as cold fusion?

Do you have a solution? thank you for your time and hopefully for your answers.

posted almost 7 years ago

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