| ▲ | 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. | ||