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Re: Most likely candidate for future spaceship propulsion
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Originally Posted by Moontanman
A magnetic field has no effect at all on uncharged hydrogen. To gather the hydrogen via a magnetic field it has to be charged no way around it. To compress the hydrogen and heat it the hydrogen has to be charged. Regular hydrogen is the most difficult to compress and fuse, that why current designs use deuterium and tritium.
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Other periodic elements gathered in the magnetic field with the hydrogen from the interstellar medium could be condensed and fused into plasma, such as dust grains and helium from the distant stars.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the hydrogen was already electrically charged from the collisions of cosmic rays and space dusts from the interstellar medium.
And if we got unlucky and didn't gather any electrically charged hydrogen we could just collide it with the gathered space dust and cosmic rays.
But if all else fails there's always helium in the medium.
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Last edited by Gardamorg; 09-14-2008 at 10:45 AM..
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