[net.space] ion pumps

crm@duke.UUCP (11/16/83)

This ion pump thing sounds like a great thing, but if we're looking for
hydrogen, why go anywhere?  Isn't the interplanetary gas mostly H and He?

Is the density enough to make this worthwhile?

(If this is a really dumb idea, be gentle; I know I know almost nothing
about this stuff...)

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/23/83)

Interplanetary gas is so thin that current technology can't do
anything useful with it, I'm afraid.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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