So your best hope might be to try and create a micro black hole by aiming two very powerful particle beams at each other and to keep firing until the black hole is either vaporized or starts to stabilize itself.

Then we’d have the additional problem of expending enough energy to maintain a pair of 1 TeV particle beams and get almost nothing out of the black hole we’re trying to feed. In order to be a viable energy source, it would have to give out between 15 and 25 times the energy we put into it. In reality, it would probably give us something a minuscule whisper of the energy we put into it.

Ah, that’s a tricky one. Like noted in the article, the micro black hole can’t even trap a proton in its event horizon so it might have to be fed something even more basic like a quark-gluon plasma that’s incredibly difficult to make and would exist for just an instant. It would be very difficult to give the micro singularity enough matter to feed on before it evaporates.

Tapping Hawking radiation for energy is something I haven’t heard of but it’s a really interesting idea. The problem is that Hawking radiation relies on disturbances of the space-time mesh on a quantum level. Ordinarily, particles appearing out of nothing vanish into nothing almost instantly and black holes break that balance.

We would have something like the zero point energy concept on our hands and I’m not sure how it could work. The yield would probably be very, very small or else the energy would’ve obliterated the whole universe by now.

Just sundowning G.

We might not be able to built micro-blackhole reactors, now, or in the millennia from now, but I could see us, or an analog thereof using natural blackholes as an energy source.

As for these fear-mongers who yap about the LHC bringing the End, they’re just upholding a centuries long tradition of being ignorant.

Or just drawing attention to themselves.