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    Sep 18, 2012, 03:20 PM
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    Taking a Tesla Coil to generate artificial lightning sending the bolts down a tube lined with magnets that creates a solid beam of energy that is sent out into the vacuum of space at the speed of light. Tesla coil would be powered by a nuclear engine and argon gas would be inside of the magnet chamber, Not sure how to design the exhaust that allows the lightning energy to be expelled hopefully creating thrust.
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    Sep 18, 2012, 04:24 PM
    So what is your question?
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    Sep 19, 2012, 09:08 AM
    There seems to be a misunderstanding of what "lightning" is. It's a stream of current, not light (nor a "solid beam of energy"). So it cannot move at the speed of light. And the electrons must flow from something to something - not just whiz off into space.
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