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A POSSIBLE method for storing very large amounts of useable energy within small volumes is described here. Our proposal is based on the existence of two new, virtually stable, forms of matter that annihilate each other with enormous energy release, but neither of which annihilates ordinary matter (and can thus be stored easily). The existence of these new forms of matter is suggested1,2 by the phenomenology of heavy quarks and also by a large class of widely discussed unified field theories.
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FREUND, P., HILL, C. A possible practical application of heavy quark physics. Nature 276, 250 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/276250a0
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