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Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite(thinkgeoenergy.com)
40 points by Jimmc414 12 hours ago | 3 comments
mncharity 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Fwiw, I'll share some surfing:

Nice article on an earlier demo: https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-millimeter-wave-dr... ; linked from this (nice but lots lots of ads): https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-millimeter-wave-dr... .

Company https://www.quaise.com/ on YT https://www.youtube.com/@quaise

MS thesis (2024; browsable) on the vitrified wall, for that and its intro: https://www.proquest.com/openview/624989df3cdd8055a6cee9affc...

Search for papers "Millimeter Wave Drilling for Deep Geothermal Energy Production" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Mil...

eternityforest 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They made the laser drill from The Core IRL?

iberator 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow. That's interesting. Thats tx of 300ghz.

Very interesting application of radio waves.