You're looking in the wrong places.
Here's a dumb simple reproduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=006d36WWyaQ
That is NOT an ionic thruster, it's a Townsend Brown thruster, we know very well how to make them but we lack the physics to understand why they work - and how to make them produce *useful* amounts of thrust.
Paper about them: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20040171929/downloads/20040171929.pdf
"they work, we don't know why"
Wikipedos mumbling about ions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect
(It's been proven that it is not ions.)
Dr. Charles Buhler (NASA electrostatics guru) started a company called Exodus to try to commercialize the thrusters for low thrust satellite applications. Video: Him commenting on the major physics issue with the fact that the thrusters don't actually require power in order to work.
Caleb James DeLisle
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