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The key advance that will allow Zap energy to commercialize fusion power is a way of maintaining a Z pinch known as sheared flow stabilization. In initial Z pinch fusion experiments dating back to the 19 fifties, scientists discovered their plasmas almost immediately became unstable. A breakthrough in Z pinch fusion happened when researchers started thinking of the plasma as a dynamic moving flow and engineered a way to break the Z pinch into layers like lanes of speeding traffic. The differences in the speed of the flow prevent instabilities and dramatically extend the lifetime of the Z pinch. Zap energy's most important innovation is in understanding the equipment techniques and careful orchestration needed to create a shared flow stabilized Z pinch with the correct balance of high current and an extended lifetime, shared flow stabilized Z pinch fusion provides a path to commercial fusion energy far smaller and more scalable than any other approach.