"When you can be 100% sure that someone innocent is not hanged, then you have my blessing to kill those convicted of crimes."
By that argument, we should ban Cars. When you are 100% sure that you will not kill someone while you are driving a car, then you can drive again.
Remember 100% sure. Before you argue that you are 100% sure, you are a careful driver etc, check how many road deaths there were last year in your country. I'd be willing to bet a large number of the drivers involved would have said they were 100% sure they would never kill anyone by their driving.
If you liberate H2 from H2O, you spend more energy than you get back by burning H2 and O to make water.
If you convert a Proton, for example into an Anti Proton, and then introduce it to another Proton, then since you are Converting the 2 Protons from matter to energy, the energy out is not just the energy that was used to convert the Proton to an Anti Proton.
Does converting a Proton to an Anti Proton take more energy than you get when you anilhate a Proton with an Anti Proton ?
If so Anti matter is a good very dense storage medium for energy. If not matter (converted to antimatter) becomes a source of energy.
Think about the possibility of turning matter into energy. Energy Crisis ? What energy crisis.
Also as the earth looses mass, we start to orbit further and further out from the sun, so the greenhouse effect of the 20th C. is mitigated;-)
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By that argument, we should ban Cars. When you are 100% sure that you will not kill someone while you are driving a car, then you can drive again.
Remember 100% sure. Before you argue that you are 100% sure, you are a careful driver etc, check how many road deaths there were last year in your country. I'd be willing to bet a large number of the drivers involved would have said they were 100% sure they would never kill anyone by their driving.
100% is pretty absolute. It's not negotiable.
If you liberate H2 from H2O, you spend more energy than you get back by burning H2 and O to make water. If you convert a Proton, for example into an Anti Proton, and then introduce it to another Proton, then since you are Converting the 2 Protons from matter to energy, the energy out is not just the energy that was used to convert the Proton to an Anti Proton. Does converting a Proton to an Anti Proton take more energy than you get when you anilhate a Proton with an Anti Proton ? If so Anti matter is a good very dense storage medium for energy. If not matter (converted to antimatter) becomes a source of energy. Think about the possibility of turning matter into energy. Energy Crisis ? What energy crisis. Also as the earth looses mass, we start to orbit further and further out from the sun, so the greenhouse effect of the 20th C. is mitigated ;-)