Andy Freeberg

Science & tech communicator. Fan of all things excellent. Head of Comms at @Energy_Zap, tweets are my own. Prvsly @SLACLab @NASAGoddard @ME_at_UW @PMEC_us

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

.@nytimes called it a side hustle - but to us, it's now our core strategy.

Read more from today's coverage: https://t.co/4Hi7JbSwPV

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

We have now achieved plasmas with pressures as high as 1.6 GPa, comparable to the pressures found deep below Earth’s crust. Introducing the latest Zap reactor, FuZE-3... https://t.co/TfYoXYUKsI

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

After a furious effort to design and then quickly build FuZE-3, earlier this year we started running it. Within 6 months we had plasmas way, way denser than anything we had ever seen before. This was a big effort and a nice jump forward.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Zap Energy ramps up the pressure in its latest fusion device https://t.co/FPRkrCG8rR

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@ElmarMoelzer @Energy_Zap In a way it's directly a successor to FuZE because it's using FuZE's capacitor banks, but otherwise it's alongside FuZE-Q. FuZE-Q still has higher power input.

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

Submit your ideas to present at @ScienceTalkOrg's #SciTalk26! Submissions due by the end of the month, so get on it. https://t.co/vcdxr3ImaB

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

After 3 years working on fusion, this is very much where I stand: "Increasingly, it looks like a prosaic engineering problem: hard, expensive, time-consuming — but ultimately solvable. That’s a challenge Americans should embrace." https://t.co/EMKmaxLbFg

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@aambatiramu @Energy_Zap

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@ElmarMoelzer @Energy_Zap For now at least.

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

Liquid metal wall 2.0: The Centrifuge.🌪️

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

What does a flowing Z pinch look like? Video from two high-speed cameras simultaneously capture a linear plasma assembling inside FuZE-Q. As you can see, the plasma looks more like a river than a lightning bolt, but has aspects of each. Our latest blog post explains more: https://t.co/evmFDo5XGp #fusion #fusionenergy #plasmaphysics

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

Zap co-founder Uri Shumlak joined leaders of the plasma science and engineering community to author a new position paper, "Plasma Science and Engineering: A Foundational Asset For National and Economic Security." Please read, share, and sign. https://t.co/z2fYWNIyyV

[Andrew Holland @TheAndyHolland]

He's not wrong - there was a lot of rhetoric supporting fusion during the Biden Administration, but little action. Now is the time for bold, decisive action to support fusion. Thanks @RepDonaldsPress for your support. Now time to put it into action with real funding.

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@mheisler_marcus @Energy_Zap That's correct. It's just interesting you can measure anisotropic neutrons once the stable period is over.

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@mheisler_marcus @Energy_Zap No, it's never been designed to be steady-state. The question is how long the stable period is and how long you can maintain it.

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

A new Zap research paper details neutron isotropy measurements that provide the most stringent validation yet that our sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinches generate stable, thermal fusion without any external magnets for confinement. https://t.co/PdBJnLdlQu

[Zap Energy @Energy_Zap]

It's that time of year where we pause for a moment to reflect on everything achieved in the past 12 months. 🧵 https://t.co/gJJGLtU5qW

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

Voting for the @ScienceTalkOrg meeting is open and as usual it's a veritable smorgasbord of interesting #scicomms workshop and talk proposals. You have about a week left to vote on what you'd like to see and then we'll start pulling together the agenda for this spring!

[Association of Science Communicators (ASC) @ScienceTalkOrg]

🎉 Voting is OPEN now through Nov 13 for #ScienceTalk2025! Help shape the sessions you want to see next year!

VOTE NOW ⬇️
Short Talks: https://t.co/LFQCTVsX54
Workshops: https://t.co/M7FpZwuz77

Learn more: https://t.co/ZgHCJGWjwN

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

No republicans voted for the IRA but republican-led states are benefiting from it more than democrat-led ones due to economics and regulation. Gotta love this country. https://t.co/lHKGxl79lB

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@ElmarMoelzer @spacekoala @is_fusion @Energy_Zap No one ever says fusion is easy!

[Andy Freeberg @Freebeazy]

@spacekoala @is_fusion @Energy_Zap Theoretically we have one, but empirically it's more complicated. There's a lot that has to line up to make all the physics work, but that's what we're working on!