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Neat concepts, but these aren't going to fly any time soon. Quotes from the article:

"Take these solenoid designs. Your spaceship basically becomes an MRI tube."

"At the end of the day, though, we are still talking about using a roughly 40-ton shield to protect a module that weighs maybe 8 tons. It doesn’t add up. No space agency is currently considering putting a magnetic shield on a rocket because today we don’t have a good solution."

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Did you miss the final section on the electrostatic shield?

You mean the one that only exists in a simulation?

> Based on their simulations, Fry and Madzunkov built small-scale models of their electrostatic shields and tested them in a particle beam at Brookhaven National Laboratory with good results—they showed that the ASPP software was fairly accurate in its predictions. “We are at the stage where we need to start looking at building larger demonstrators. Stojan and I proposed putting a device on a lunar surface as a technology demonstration for the plasma mitigation method. Sometimes, you’ve just got to focus on applications that perhaps you don’t want to do first,” said Fry.

It is only a small scale model, but your comment really doesn't warrant such certainty about simulation only.

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