Carlos Araque is the co-founder and CEO of Quaise Energy. He is explaining the commercial deployment timeline for Quaise's deep geothermal millimeter-wave drilling technology.
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“So, twenty-twenty-four is what we say we're going to do, and after that, you start the journey towards repairing a power plant, and that takes us the better part of the rest of the decade. So, twenty-twenty-seven, 28 is when we intend to repair the first power plant.”
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“Oh, we're talking about weeks.”
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Araque: Gyrotron millimeter waves can vaporize any subterranean basement rock
“Anything that's down there in the basement rock
Can be vaporized through this.
if you try to vaporize a metallic wall, it's not going to work, but there's no metallic walls down there.
So, so rock vaporizes.”
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“So when you're drilling the energy, you use temperature to stabilize the hole, and it basically keeps itself open.
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We've seen this in the lab.”
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