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How does a plasma thruster work?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Plasma Fusion

There are some pretty new and interesting ideas. I think you spoke to some of the scientists there at the princeton lab, and they have some new concepts for making this happen. There was a new idea just this year from an aranian scientist at plasma doctor fatima ebrahimi. And she's saying, let's capture those bubbles and use them. It is just some like phenomenon that happens with all plasmas. If we can make our magnetic fields in such a way that they always shoot in one direction, then we can basically shoot these magnetic bubbles out the back.

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