[quote=Jeddaven]
Not to mention the fact that the particle accelerators themselves would take up huge amounts of space, be extremely expensive to build, take a long time to build, and suck in ludicrous amounts of energy. There's also the fact that a lot of nations are not going to be happy about APRICA trying to make antimatter, and, at the very least, such would make them a prime target of intelligence agencies that aren't interested in paying for the research. That much energy being used and created is going to be VERY visible to any well-equipped government or corporation, both visually (the buildings) and non-visibly; detection equipment is going to go crazy with that much energy in one place.
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And to make them work and fit in such small places would mean they're require a lot of energy. Friend of mine studying in the field informed me that smaller accelerators require an intense amount of energy to maintain, and larger ones require less or something.