Can we use CME or solar flare to power spacecraft?

Coronal Mass Ejection and solar flare produced on the surface of the Sun often can cause disruption to our electronic equipments especially the communication service if it was directed towards Earth. However these solar winds carry enormous amount of energy and I believe we can use it to power spacecraft to reach distant places within the solar system and beyond. I'm envisioning a futuristic world where we deployed machines to capture these high energy charged particles to propel interstellar flights, the spacecraft will move even more faster than using a solar sail. Is such technology within our gasps in the coming decades? My future spacecraft would be running on hybrid engine fueled by both solar flare and nuclear fusion and since the size of CME is colossal we can have space travellers paying visit to these patrol stations for refill, but is it possible to contain the CME for long period of time?

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