> On Feb 16, 2016, at 8:46 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The physics and starflight-planning communities can't quite seem to decide whether a Bussard ramjet could work at all. But one thing that's clear is that they'd have to be purpose-built. You need truly ginormous finely-tuned magnetic field generators, all perfectly balanced to feed into a pinch fusion chamber without having to accelerate the fuel to your speed (which robs you of most of your potential thrust).

This is if you’re using it as a ramjet. As a Hydrogen atom collector for jump fuel, this might not be an issue...

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