Electric Sail

[kaublezw]

[D_Archer]

The e-sail is just wires positively charged.

They know that the positive charge will dissipate in the plasma environment of the Sun, this is inline with EU and normal plasma physics.

What they seem to have trouble with is to determine how much energy it costs to keep the wires positive, they do not mention what these 2 different models are.... so hard to judge.

Good to see they will do plasma experiments...

My bet is that the model that requires the most energy is correct. This would be inline with asteroids losing positive charge when moving away from the Sun in the EU model.

Regards,
Daniel

[Aardwolf]

More exited by this;

[seasmith]

[DJunqueira]

I think that EM Driver is more likely to work.


Other form of propulsion is Z-Pinch Thruster
YouTube video


What would this Electric Sail device do when space changed its charge?

[D_Archer]