Pleased to host Washington Governor Jay Inslee, members of his staff, State Representatives Mary Fosse and Julio Cortes, and officials from the Department of Health at our facilities in Everett today. Under Governor Inslee our state has emerged as an international focal point of fusion development, and earlier this year he became the third governor to sign legislation formally recognizing fusion as a source of clean energy and providing incentives tied to its development. #Fusion #FusionPower #CleanEnergy
Zap Energy
Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
Everett, Washington 10,825 followers
Fusion power. No magnets required.
About us
Zap Energy is building a seriously cheap, compact, scalable fusion reactor with the potential for a much faster path to commercially viable fusion, without using magnets.
- Website
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http://www.zap.energy
External link for Zap Energy
- Industry
- Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Everett, Washington
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2017
- Specialties
- Plasma Physics, Fusion Energy, Pulsed Power, Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, and Mechanical Engineering
Locations
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Everett, Washington, US
Employees at Zap Energy
Updates
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If you follow our team, hopefully you won't be surprised to hear that we stand behind the principles outlined in this recent letter from Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Publishing peer-reviewed results is critical at this stage, and in our own best interests at that.
Fusion energy is key to solving our current climate crisis. So it’s critical that the fusion industry works together to build public trust. To do that, we must standardize how we evaluate progress. Every fusion concept naturally passes milestones that show it has a viable source of fusion energy and it can commercialize that fusion energy. To help motivate our industry to work together toward this common good, I’ve detailed the standardized approach we use internally to track the ecosystem. Hopefully this is helpful to investors, press, regulators, and the public to use to evaluate real progress. Further, CFS commits to focusing on company milestone announcements that are: ✔ Easy to measure and interpret ✔ Peer reviewed, as the norm ✔ Shared and celebrated publicly ✔ Easy to understand The path to fusion is paved with extraordinary potential for climate and energy, and while we race against time to make fusion a reality we must also get it right. I urge my colleagues and peers to hold ourselves accountable to science, engineering, and commercial progress. A rising tide lifts all boats. Read my full open letter below and let me know what you think. https://lnkd.in/ejiwP3fz
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Thank you SF Deep Tech Week for giving Zap's Derek Sutherland a chance to help spread the word about our fusion energy developments (and, if you look closely, a platform to educate the audience on "sausage" and "kink" plasma instabilities).
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It was great time participating in this event and sharing what we are working on Zap Energy! Thanks for the invite. #fusion #deeptech
#FusionIsHere :-) Fusion energy is the hardest, most capital intensive, and complex technology of the 21st century and one of the important breakthroughs of our lifetime. This week's Fusion event at SF Deep Tech Week covered leading technical approaches and strategies to continue the industry's growth. We heard fusion approaches from: Kyle Schiller, CEO at Marathon Fusion Darren Woulfe, Head of Magnet Business Commonwealth Fusion Systems David Gates, CTO at Thea Energy Robin Langtry, CEO at Avalanche Energy Derek Sutherland, Head of Fuze-Q Physics Zap Energy Andrea (Annie) Kritcher, Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Designer of NIF shot (!) Alison Christopherson, Plasma Physicist at Xcimer Energy Corporation JC B. CEO at Fuse And policy, funding, and public-private partnerships perspectives from: Andrew Holland, CEO at Fusion Industry Association Sally Benson, Professor at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Ahmed Diallo, Director at ARPA-E Malcolm Handley, Fusion VC at Strong Atomics Thank you to everyone who attended. For those that missed it, subscribe for future updates here: https://lnkd.in/g5DgRa4n Special thanks to Gigascale Capital for sponsoring and @Andrew Cote for their leadership and enthusiasm for Fusion!
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Last week ARPA-E held their annual #fusionenergy meeting here in Seattle, providing the opportunity to update the broader fusion community on our progress and take a short break from R&D to give a few visitors a peek inside the lab.
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The U.S. milestone-based public-private fusion program is fundamentally different from the way fusion has been funded over the past several decades and Zap has officially signed the contract to participate. It needs to be bolder, but it’s an important start. https://lnkd.in/ewrVyjdZ
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No one gets into fusion because it's easy. Our new video looks inside Zap’s facilities to show what motivates our team to take on fusion's challenges, and what makes our technology different - check it out. #Fusion #FusionPower #FusionEnergy #PlasmaPhysics #PlasmaScience #CleanEnergy #CleanTech #DeepTech Brian Nelson Uri Shumlak Ben Levitt Alexandra [AJ] Kantor Matthew Thompson Derek Sutherland Ryan Umstattd
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Another new publication from one of our diagnostics collaborators - this one from Amanda Youmans of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Portable and Adaptable Neutron Diagnostics for Advancing Fusion Energy Science (PANDA-FES) team: https://lnkd.in/gCbTx2Pi This PANDA isn’t interested in bamboo, PANDA-FES is a traveling set of instruments that detect the neutrons produced by fusion reactions in devices like Zap’s Fusion Z-pinch Experiment (FuZE) to provide an array of important information about our plasmas, including the total number of neutrons they generate and details about the plasma's shape, stability and duration.
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This week, the journal Nuclear Fusion published a new paper demonstrating the strong predictive capability of WARPXM simulations for the plasmas in Zap Energy fusion devices. Author Iman Datta is an expert in WARPXM, a computer code developed at the University of Washington for computational plasma dynamics. Read the paper “Whole device modeling of the FuZE sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch” here: https://lnkd.in/g4fc6cjC. Hat tip to Iman Datta, Eric Meier and Uri Shumlak. Learn more about our theory and modeling team’s work on our blog: https://lnkd.in/g_c3N4eG
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Major kudos to Fusion Energy Week – U.S. Fusion Energy for pulling together an impressive list of events next week: https://lnkd.in/eiXH767c For students in the Seattle region, RSVPs are still open for our Women in Fusion/STEM panel & tour on May 9: https://lnkd.in/gMJNKMNX And if you're still learning about fusion (or your friends are), Arturo Dominguez and Tammy Ma will offer a #Fusion101 webinar to kick off the week on Monday, May 6: https://lnkd.in/ge3cgqvQ #FusionEnergyWeek
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