Outer space clouds and/or nebulas would have extremely low density I think. Imagine the vastness of sail collectors (or similar) needed to yield significant amounts!
It's not clear the magnetic ramscoop arrangement is particularly viable from the calculations, nor particularly efficient.
Given the absurd amounts of power available from stars when you start thinking about building such a ship, a lot of other options start to make more sense.
Antimatter synthesis isn't so unreasonable then you can magnetically divert the solar window to setup the brightest luminosity particle accelerator ever to make anti-hydrogen.
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Outer space clouds and/or nebulas would have extremely low density I think. Imagine the vastness of sail collectors (or similar) needed to yield significant amounts!
It's not clear the magnetic ramscoop arrangement is particularly viable from the calculations, nor particularly efficient.
Given the absurd amounts of power available from stars when you start thinking about building such a ship, a lot of other options start to make more sense.
Antimatter synthesis isn't so unreasonable then you can magnetically divert the solar window to setup the brightest luminosity particle accelerator ever to make anti-hydrogen.