Thanks to mass-energy equivalence, your choices for visualizing this are many. Perhaps the two easiest are: Physically lifting the 1kg matter+antimatter to elevation h, which is equivalent to Gravitational redshifting of the 1kg-worth (converted to energy) of photons between ground level and elevation h
As an aside, if momentum is conserved, shouldn't each photon be paired and emitted in opposite directions? The author charitably attributes the inability for such a system to be energy neutral to "engineering problems," but I think it's pretty clear that there are also physical laws that make this impossible.