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tldr; Q-Balls serve as an efficient power source. Basically, stick a Q-Ball in a beam of protons, and you'll get 1GeV of high energy gammas and pions per proton.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...9397013786 (let me know if you can't see this)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...275#bID103 (ditto)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.7487v1.pdf

Some numbers: 10E8 watts using a 100 ton Q-Ball a few microns in diameter with a charge of 10E40. Or using 10E17 Q-Balls each with a charge of 10E6 (units of charge equal to e).

Some advantages over monopoles:

Easier to make
Easier to confine electric charges
Easier to shield from detection (electric charge can be masked, magnetic fields generally not except via superconductors)

BTW, dropping a Q-Ball into a neutron star causes it to supernova. Increasing charge on a Q-Ball = increasing energy regime in the core, e.g. a Q-Ball with a charge of ~10E60E is pretty close to GUT. This means you may be able to use a Q-Ball to make monopoles, or other artifacts of the just barely post-Big Bang universe.
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More on Q-Balls - by Tachyon - 10-30-2013, 05:12 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Drashner1 - 10-31-2013, 03:24 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by iancampbell - 11-03-2013, 01:33 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Tachyon - 11-05-2013, 06:08 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Drashner1 - 11-05-2013, 10:30 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Tachyon - 11-06-2013, 04:36 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by JohnnyYesterday - 11-06-2013, 11:44 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Drashner1 - 11-06-2013, 02:28 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Rynn - 11-07-2013, 01:07 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Drashner1 - 11-24-2013, 10:03 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Tachyon - 12-06-2013, 06:36 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Dalex - 11-30-2013, 05:40 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Tachyon - 12-06-2013, 06:28 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Drashner1 - 12-10-2013, 12:24 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by irigi - 05-05-2014, 08:28 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Dalex - 05-06-2014, 01:19 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by irigi - 05-06-2014, 06:04 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Drashner1 - 05-07-2014, 10:11 AM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Ithuriel - 05-06-2014, 06:40 PM
RE: More on Q-Balls - by Ithuriel - 05-07-2014, 06:18 PM

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