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Plasmoid thruster
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An Alfvenic reconnecting plasmoid thruster
Fatima Ebrahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04192

A popularized description of a possible space drive is available in https://phys.org/pdf531057876.pdf

It would use reconnecting magnetic fields to produce exhaust velocities in the range of 50 to 500 km/sec.

I dunno to what extent it might have survived the Technocalypse.

(Originally encountered in today’s Apple News.)
Selden
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