But, with pessimism being so thick you can cut it with a plasma torch, the rest of the market beating expectations is not a hard thing to do.

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However Chunqi Jiang, a physicist at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues have come up with a possible alternative: a dental plasma torch.

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First, fusion research failed to progress as quickly as expected, so there were no power stations producing streams of surplus plasma to fuel fusion-torch recyclers.

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