Zap Energy, the Seattle fusion startup, has created the superheated plasma required for fusion and has raised $160 million from backers including Bill Gates. Zap has a technology to confine and compress plasma called sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch which is claimed to be simpler than other approaches. “Z pinch has long been an appealing way to achieve nuclear …
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