Quantum Space Drive? What the Frell???

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Here's an article I just read about a proposal to build a quantum space drive. This is based on the fact that for the first time a group of scientists have managed to teleport the quantum state of a trillion-atom chunk of cesium into another chunk. The author proposes to entangle two large amounts of cesium and store one of the chunks on a ship. The other chunk will be put into a reactor on Earth, which will ionize particles and teleport the ionization to the corresponding chunk on the ship. That ship would suddenly find its fuel sponateously ionizing, and could use this for propulsion.

To put it simply, I don't buy it. Even if one ignores the technological hurdles (and they are HUGE), I don't think quantum teleportation works that way. Then again, I could easily be wrong, since I don't have a very good idea yet of how quantum teleportation works.