Previously posted.
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> OTOH. processed waste water fed out to a propulsion panel (you could almost get to Mars just by flushing the urinal.)
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Reminiscent of "Flush Gordon" of yesteryear.
However, a wire mesh "wick" electrode for getting water vapor into a high frequency plasma (Corona)
thruster operating off a Solar Panel powered Tesla Coil with the wick as one electrode, and a wire mesh as the other,
should allow kilovolt level ion/electron velocities without spacecraft charge buildup problems.
A modern "solid state" Tesla Coil:
Having a wire mesh on both sides of the wick electrode would allow switching for direction
change i.e., vacuum braking.
Frederick
