Press
Release 5 - Antimatter Alternative -U.S.
Electrical Power
February 15, 2003
According
to U.S.
Department of Energy, the United States generated 3,800 billion kilowatt hours of electricity
from coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric and other sources. The table
below shows the distribution of energy sources compared with antimatter energy.
|
2000 U.S. Net Generation by Energy Source
(Billion Kilowatt-hours) |
| Energy Source |
Industry |
Units |
Antimatter Energy
(Kilograms) |
|
Coala |
1,968 |
900 million
Metric Tons |
44.9 |
| Petroleumb |
109 |
173 million
Barrels |
2.5
|
| Gasc |
612 |
6.3 trillion
Cubic Feet |
14.0 |
|
Subtotal |
2,689 |
|
61.4 |
| Hydroelectric |
273 |
|
6.2 |
| Nuclear |
754 |
|
17.2 |
| Otherd |
84 |
|
1.9 |
|
Total |
3,800 |
|
86.7 |
aIncludes
coal, anthracite, culm, coke breeze, fine coal, waste coal, bituminous
gob, and lignite waste.
bIncludes petroleum, petroleum coke, diesel, kerosene,
liquid butane, liquid propane, oil waste, and tar oil.
cIncludes natural gas, waste heat, waste gas, butane,
methane, propane, and other gas.
dIncludes: utilities -- geothermal, biomass (wood,
wood waste, peat, wood liquors, railroad ties, pitch, wood sludge,
municipal solid waste, agricultural byproducts, straw, tires, landfill
gases, and fish oils), wind, solar, and photovoltaic; nonutilities
-- geothermal, wind, solar (photovoltaic/thermal), multifuel, biomass
(wood, wood waste, peat, wood liquors, railroad ties, pitch, wood sludge,
municipal solid waste, agricultural byproducts, straw, tires, landfill
gases, fish oils), hydrogen, sulfur, batteries, chemicals, and purchased
steam.
Notes: • Utility data are final; nonutility values for 1999 are
final and for 2000 are preliminary. • Totals may not equal sum of
components because of independent rounding.
Sources: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-759,
"Monthly Power Plant Report," Form EIA-900, "Monthly
Nonutility Power Plant Report," and Form EIA-860B, "Annual
Electric Generator Report - Nonutility." |
As an alternative to burning coal,
oil, and natural gas to generate 2,689 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity,
61.4 kilograms of antimatter will be used. With next ten to twenty
years, antimatter energy will become economical; and the chemicals will be
used to make products to bring every
country into the 21st century.
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