content: "the air molecules"  What you have there is a miss quote mate.  “With our system, we use similar physics but in a different environment. We have our cathode and anode, the negative and the positive part of the plasma discharge, but we don’t have an atmosphere”, no air molecules to rip apart.  I think Paddy Neumann was referring to the fact that the Neumann drive runs on solid fuels, where as a gridded Ion thruster and hall effect thruster both rely on gaseous fuels. Better luck next time mate ;) peace...