Nuclear fusion breakthrough to bring space boost as humans could soon leave solar system

He said: “This work is heartening, then, but it should not diminish our research into alternatives like beamed energy as we consider missions beyond the solar system.”

Meanwhile, experts like Richard Dinan, the founder of the UK-based Pulsar Fusion, believe that fusion is propulsion is actually a much simpler technology to using fusion to generate energy. 

He said: “If fusion is achievable, which at last the people are starting to see it is, then both fusion energy and propulsion are inevitable. One gives us the ability to power our planet indefinitely, the other the ability to leave our solar system. It’s a big deal, really.”

The former Made In Chelsea star said that exhaust speeds generated from a fusion plasma are calculated to be roughly a thousand times that of a Hall Effect Thruster, which is an electric propulsion hardware that uses electric and magnetic fields to create and eject a plasma.

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