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Originally Posted by Xaccers
It's the laws of physics, pass a current through a magnetic field and you get motion, it's how motors work.
Obviously as the hydrogen atoms get pulled in, the magnetic field strips them of their electrons making them ions, which carry a charge.
Simple really.
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I know that's how motors work, but what I'm saying is that the whole concept of turbine blades in a vacuum is silly. You could draw the hydrogen atoms in without any moving parts, using energy to rotate the turbine blades would be pointless. Sure, they might hit & deflect the trajectory of the occasional atom, but otherwise they'll be just a waste of space, materials, & energy.
Think of it like this: aircraft that use propellers can only work up to a certain altitude [I don't happen to know what it is off the top of my head], because the air is just too thin. Yet even at those high altitudes the air is orders of magnitude more dense than the distribution of hydrogen atoms in space.