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Derek Sutherland @dasutherland

CSO @RealtaFusion | Advisor to @doescience (SCAC) | Science, engineering, space, energy, philosophy, music, art and coffee.

Joined January 2026
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The speed @bscholl got this into the store is just one small example of why I’m confident we’ll be able to buy tickets to fly on Overture very soon. Onward @boomsupersonic! 🦅🇺🇸✈️💪🏻
Blake Scholl 🛫
 @bscholl
Jul 4
At the suggestion of @dasutherland, Boom is making beautiful America 250 Overture desktop models for $250. Order link below.
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Happy 250th anniversary to the greatest country on Earth that is built on some of the most important ideas in human history: the individual rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Celebrate this revolutionary thought today and the ongoing pursuit of it!
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Nice exhibit @msichicago! Really awesome to see a @SpaceX capsule up close for the first time.
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The aesthetics of Starship launches are unmatched @SpaceX. Just amazing 🚀
SpaceX
 @SpaceX
May 23
Liftoff of Starship on its twelfth flight test
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Welcome home! Glad to see a perfect splash down and having everyone back home safe and sound after an epic journey. Nice work @NASA!
NASA
 @NASA
Apr 11
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
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Great news for Californians! At least twenty more years of clean, safe, and reliable power from Diablo Canyon.
NRC
 @NRCgov
Apr 2
#NRCNews:✅We've renewed the operating licenses of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant for an additional 20 years, marking the 99th and 100th renewed commercial reactor operating licenses. nrc.gov/sites/default/files/…
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We built a new version called HIT-SIU (the one in the picture was called HIT-SI3) that used a toroidally connected manifold for doing helicity injection. Here are a few pictures of HIT-SIU being built, including the smaller cylinders that are plasma sources for fueling!
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My team and I built the device in the left picture in Seattle. It no longer exists, but it is neither from Germany nor will be connected to the grid anytime soon. Spheromak-based magnetic confinement fusion is definitely still at “prototype” stage. But still worthy of study!
Night Sky Today
 @NightSkyToday
Apr 9
🚨: Germany’s new fusion reactor might power the entire planet by 2040, and it will soon be connected to the electrical grid.
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Thanks for the awesome show @SpaceX! I’ve seen many rocket launches in my life growing up in Florida, but it truly never gets old. Seeing the booster come back down to drone ship was truly next level.
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Looking forward to the day when I can see this myself. Incredible views @NASA!
NASA
 @NASA
Apr 3
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
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Really epic visualization! The arteries of civilization.
Brian Bartholomew
 @BPBartholomew
Mar 30
The world's electricity infrastructure, mapped.
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Beautiful morning in DC! Lots of blossoms and kites.
National Mall NPS
 @NationalMallNPS
Mar 28
Let's go fly a kite! A thousand streaks of color are flying above the Washington Monument grounds for the Blossom Kite Festival. Like cherry blossom petals caught on the breeze, the kites are drifting, diving, and dipping through the sky. It's fun for everyone! 🌸🪁🌸🪁🌸  #NationalMall #CherryBlossom #WashingtonDC
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And we can do so much better on cost and schedule than we are doing now while still ensuring public health and safety. @NRCgov and various fission companies are making good progress towards this end, but there is so much more we can improve.
Jordan Taylor
 @Jordan_W_Taylor
Mar 28
Nuclear power is a civilizational marshmallow test. They're complex projects and most of the cost of nuclear power is from initial financing... but after 20 years that's done, and you could still have 50 years of life left. Planting trees your grandchildren will sit under.
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Whoever is running visualizations @NASA now deserves a raise!
Hubble
 @NASAHubble
Mar 26
41P likely originated in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit. The comet was then flung into its current trajectory by Jupiter’s gravity, now visiting our inner solar system every 5.4 years. Find out more: go.nasa.gov/4bLPEh5
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Looking forward to my first meeting as a member of SCAC tomorrow. Let’s make the @ENERGY science portfolio as productive and impactful as possible!
DOE Office of Science @doescience
Mar 26
The new Office of Science Advisory Committee provides advice to @ENERGY on a variety of complex scientific and technical issues, including establishing research priorities. The Committee’s inaugural meeting will be tomorrow, March 27. Register now: web.cvent.com/event/6ce9b448…
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Best quote of the day thus far: you have to compete, “there is no divine right to success” - Jamie Dimon At @HillValleyForum, packed to the brim with passionate builders!
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Andrew Côté
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Feb 24
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