On this 100th anniversary of Dirac’s prediction of antimatter I think it is time we use this technology in a flashlight. It turns out that an ordinary lightning bolt is strong enough to pull an electron positron out of the vacuum. The positron quickly collides with the nearest electron producing a photon pair at a wavelength of 427 picometers that is gamma rays. Of course there will be practical problems generating the 10000000 volts 100000 amps of a lightning bolt even if it does only last .001 seconds. Perhaps electroboom can help with that. Then the gamma rays will have to be down converted into visible light. It may be that mercury light phosphor will do the trick. Don’t tell it can’t be done go and do it.
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The great things about emitting gamma rays of that magnitude is that once you turn on your antimatter flashlight, whatever you are pointed at will start glowing. On its own. For the next century.
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Or we can stock up on banananananas and use their 40K decaying to collect assloads of e+s to power it instead.
More sustainable… 