Sunday, 27 May 2018

Can the technology behind Particle accelerators can be used for energy storage?


As I understand, the kinetic energy of the proton beam in a hadron collider is quite large. Can you build a energy storage system that is based on accelerating a proton beam to relativistic speeds to retrieve the energy later?


Here is my related question: Can the technology behind particle accelerators be used for space propulsion?




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