Everyone by now has heard of the hydrogen economy and rocket ships powered by liquid nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen. But, one company is proposing a new next generation method of propulsion called “mirror energy”.
This mirror energy or mirror power as they sometimes call it is based upon anti-matter. Energy USA theorizes that one day spacecraft will not only run on mirror power but travel to the tail end of comets to collect this anti-matter as well.
Mirror energy, then will be a commodity the size of about two nickels that can be sold to companies and universities for millions of dollars. Conceivably, also one day the space tourism industry will also run on mirror energy as well.
Is this a little far-fetched? Perhaps. Or more likely just ahead of its time. Many times science fiction precedes science, so don’t be too surprised if the next generation is vacationing in space with mirror energy to propel them in flybys around the Earth.