<blockquote>'FORGET fuel-powered jet engines. We’re on the verge of having aircraft that can fly from the ground up to the edge of space using air and electricity alone.
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Berkant Göksel at the Technical University of Berlin and his team now want to fit plasma engines to planes. “We want to develop a system that can operate above an altitude of 30 kilometres where standard jet engines cannot go,” he says. These could even take passengers to the edge of the atmosphere and beyond.
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Göksel is hoping for a breakthrough in compact fusion reactors to power his system..
In the meantime, he is looking into hybrid planes, in which his plasma engine would be combined with pulse detonation combustion engines or rockets to save on fuel.'
- Sandrine Ceurstemont,
Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space, May 17, 2017</blockquote>
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(Fusion Power) - LPP Focus Fusion 1; '..FF-1 results are right now far ahead..'(The Electric Universe) - SAFIRE as Astrophysical Laboratory | EU2016'Open source is now mainstream..'The New Fusion Race - Part 4 - Fusion Race: Who is Ahead, April 6, 2017</blockquote>