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ncmncm on July 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)

First, you have to ionize it all.

trhway on July 8, 2021 [–]

required ionization energy is dwarfed by the particle kinetic energy to be collected which is in MeV.

ncmncm on July 10, 2021 | [–]

Fine. But how would you achieve it?

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