It isnt optimized. Its gibberish written just to give some weight to the headline. People do bad jobs at science popularization too.

Cool, thanks. So much more readable

Right. where’s the actual content, the wording not treating us like idiots? What is the actual improvement?

Plasma is made from basicly over charging a gas with electrons the gas getting all pissy about having those electrons and starts dumping them. something do with elements wanting stability. In that process you get alot of heat out put. Now f you make it more dense I would conclude simply, you now have more ionized atoms in the plasma stream, meaning your plasma will be hotter if the stream will be the same size or if the plasma stream is shrunk but has the same number of ionized gas atoms, you have the same heat out put but in a smaller stream.

Sure… but the metaphor glosses over the fact that they haven’t really told us anything of interest. It SOUNDS good, but there’s no way to tell how significant it actually is.

Fusion breakthroughs have sounded good since the 90s, but we’re still the proverbial 10 years away from anything useful.

So we hear. But the world is not America and this is a British newspaper.