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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
If an SM+10 spacecraft possessed 10 Solar Panel Arrays and 5 Antimatter Production Facilities, it could produce 10 milligrams of antimatter per hour at TL9. Of course, it would also suffer 100x as much radiation from solar storms and would have problems storing that much antimatter.
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Why would there be any more trouble storing 10mg than 1mg? Or 1g or 100g? Pretty sure you just need a magnetic bottle.
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Even with that level of production, the price would not drop quickly because of the enormous maintenance cost (you would likely be capturing only 1% of the antimatter produced, meaning that the remaining 99% is turning the facility to Swiss cheese)...
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Production is the yield of antimatter produced and stored by the factory, by definition. It would be very bad design to build a leaky antimatter factory that releases 99% of its production to its environment. Even a-m that couldn't be captured inside the factory would be directed to absorber shields of some sort.
Maintenance would be a problem for being so close to the Sun, not from containing a-m factories.