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Recycling electrical power on project dedalus?
Over the weekend I was reading some sites associated with our British
Interplanetary Societys Project Dedalus. It seems to be for the moment the only practical proposition to get a payload to another system in a realistic time frame. Anyhow, on some of the sites concerning the engine, was a discription to have around the rocket nozzel bell end an O ring of like a cathode, so the probe can recycle some current/electrocity via the plasma exhaust plume. Can they do that, and do you get much electricity via it? It sounds like a good idea and it could be used on a VASIMR type rocket to get some payback from the amount of electricity the ship would use to generate a plasma exhaust. Christopher +++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." Winston Churchill |
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