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Old 01-January-2009, 02:44 PM
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....far more energy than that which is necessary as fuel.
They each will generate large amounts of radiation and heat which would have to be used to power ion engines. In the case of fusion, the fusion products could be used for propellant if we can capture and control them after fusion and feed them into the ion propulsion process. In the case of matter/anti-matter combination the propellant candidates are limited to neutrinos and photons for which we don't have the efficiency robbing focussing technology required for propellants. In each of these cases I expect the mass of shielding and "input fuel" to be insurmountable.
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