Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

Jimmc414 39 points 3 comments June 20, 2026
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iberator

Wow. That's interesting. Thats tx of 300ghz. Very interesting application of radio waves.

eternityforest

They made the laser drill from The Core IRL?

mncharity

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...

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