#13589
ael
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Francisl wrote: The closest research that I have found that is similar to your concept is the plasma railgun.

I did some simplified and optimistic calculations and linear accelerator to get flake 50um in radius, 1um thickness to 1300km/s needs to be at least 100m long. Problem is that only small fraction of the atoms can be electrically charged (about 50ppm). Now I can see that accelerating plasmons lends to much more manageable equipment size.