Extracting energy from quark and gluon plasma
Is it theoretically possible to extract energy from quark-gluon plasma?
From what I know only around 1% of the atom is actual quark mass and the other 99% is basically energy from the strong force binding everything together. So if quark gluon plasma happens, wouldn’t that mean almost all of the atom’s energy gets released?
People always talk about creating QGP with particle colliders but why couldn’t we make some kind of reactor instead? For example put matter in a vacuum and use powerful magnets to stop it from touching anything and cooling too fast like fusion reactors. Then heat it enough to turn into quark gluon plasma
After that wouldn’t the released energy produce enough heat to sustain the reaction for at least a fraction of a second Before it cools down again we could keep hitting it with laser pulses and keep adding more material.
In that case, wouldn’t the energy needed to maintain the plasma be less than the energy released? If even 1 gram could theoretically produce absurd amounts of energy like tens of terawatts, why is this idea never discussed seriously?