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The official name of the StarDrive 'Electronic Dynamo', per the U.S. Patent and PCT (international) Application, is Electrodynamic Field Generator. The EDF Generator uses banks of permanent magnets and rotating Field Coils to produce a very-high DC rotor voltage, and plane-parallel ring electrode arrays to electrostatically expand and control that voltage as applied to the outer hull, so that huge quantities of external Field electrons may be accelerated to energy levels which are usually achieved only with a particle accelerator! It's somewhat like a glorified arc welder whose output is deliberately shorted to its own housing, and the DC voltage and current across the emitter and collector housing sections can be thermionically elevated to lightning-like values: but the external uniform Field current density is limited to a value that falls short of damaging the hull!
Originally posted by Xabora
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