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  • I think I remember hearing that it would react with dark matter the same way.

    Like matter, it doesn’t interact with dark matter to any detectable degree.

    I say “doesn’t” on purpose, because we have small containers of the stuff tucked away in labs, and it’s (momentarily) created as an inevitable byproduct of particle accelerators and certain radioactive decays.

    So my question is, does anti-dark matter exist, and what are it’s properties?

    Nobody knows what dark matter is beyond it being everywhere and heavy, so double don’t-know. There’s no particular reason to think it would follow a similar pattern, though.









  • If your water splitters are running, you should really just use the electricity they’re on to generate heat. Fire is especially dangerous in enclosed spaces.

    Also for load balancing you could constantly be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, then react them back into water when you need a large amount of energy at once as an alternative to electrical batteries which degrades less over time, if heat is all you want at least.

    Some kind of combustion with oxidiser built in might always have an application. Chemical rocket boosters maybe? (Hydrogen specifically can also be turned back into electricity with like 80% efficiency in a fuel cell, FYI, although it’s sooo hard to store)

    I suppose there might be The Martian-esque edge cases as well, where more complex, controlled chemical reactions are temporarily impractical, but like in the book and movie that’s highly unsustainable and you’ll die if you’re stuck doing it for long.