The Focus Fusion Society Forums Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Science and Applications Exhaust velocity? Reply To: reference to electric field propulsion?

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KeithPickering
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KeithPickering wrote:
Specific impulse and thrust depend on how much and how rapidly fuel is burned. I don’t believe we know the answers to those questions yet.

Amending my own post: specific impulse is 1/g times the exhaust velocity. At 11781 km per second, or 11,781,000 meters per second, specific impulse would be about 1,201,334 seconds. But of course, that’s still very much a best-case scenario.