Loading...Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Spacecraft Propulsion
Inertial electrostatic confinement is a branch of fusion research that uses an electric field to elevate a plasma to fusion conditions. Electric fields can do work on charged particles (either ions or electrons), heating/confining them to fusion conditions.
This is typically done in a sphere, with material moving radially inward, but can also be done in a cylindrical or beam geometry. The electric field can be generated using a wire grid or a non-neutral plasma cloud.
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NASA seemed to like this idea a while back, don’t know if it will happen though, maybe it has? anyone?
And if that doesn’t work, how about antimatter propulsion?