Stephen Shankland

@stshank

Head of Content at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a company commercializing fusion energy: clean, safe, affordable, secure. Former sci-tech journalist.

SF Bay Area, CA

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Stephen Shankland
@stshank
6月4日
In fusion energy, everything starts with the plasma physics. These five papers lay the foundation for our ARC fusion power plant. 58 authors, 226 pages, and the physics checks out. #FusionEnergy
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
@CFS_energy
6月4日
Today, we laid the physics foundation for our ARC fusion power plant. ⚛️ With 5 deeply researched papers — validated by independent peer review and published in the Journal of Plasma Physics — we’ve shown we've nailed the scientific basics of producing copious amounts of fusion
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Stephen Shankland
@stshank
11月2日
Why "straight out of camera" doesn't necessarily mean "this photo is faithful to reality." Digital cameras make lots of guesses about the outside world and apply lots of processing.
PetaPixel
@petapixel
11月2日
An outstretched hand turned washed-out fall foliage warm and saturated in a viral iPhone side-by-side from @mclIark, likely because the hand shifts the camera's auto white balance. petapixel.com/2026/11/02/the…
Stephen Shankland
@stshank
11月2日
When I joined CFS, we were focused a lot on manufacturing SPARC's magnets. Now we're focused a lot on assembling SPARC. You'll hear us talk more about SPARC operations as we progress — for example this week at APS-DPP, talking about our paths to Q>1. #FusionEnergy
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
@CFS_energy
11月2日
This week, many of the brightest minds in the field of fusion physics gather at an annual conference to discuss the remarkable physical process that lets us develop a new source of clean, abundant energy. At the event, Commonwealth Fusion Systems experts will bring a new subject
Stephen Shankland
@stshank
10月31日
I don't repost this stuff to romanticize anything. On the contrary. I have anti-nostalgia for Cold War geopolitics. But fascinating history.
NUKES
@atomicarchive
10月30日
65 years ago, on October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the AN602 "Tsar Bomba", the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever created and tested. The bomb with a yield of 58 megatons was dropped from a Tu-95 bomber and detonated at an altitude of 4 km over the Novaya Zemlya.
Stephen Shankland
@stshank
10月30日
Snowy egret with its golden slippers. Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, California, on the San Francisco Bay. #birding

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