I wonder how much energy would have to be generated to have an active “shield generator” that would positively charge the hull to deflect the solar radiation from it?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The trouble is that solar radiation has both charge polarities in it, meaning your charged shield only deflects half the particles while attracting the other half.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Oh that is interesting. Maybe an oscillating polarity could do it?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

First, you'd need to figure out the best "energy shield(s)" for deflecting the problematic radiation. A quick glance shows that there's been some promising research using charged plasma bubbles contained by superconductors. That does not sound likely to be low energy. Then there's other problems like getting telemetry data, etc. Would be awesome if such an approach were proven to work.