HOUSTON (7/22/2025) – “Quaise Energy, a leading developer of grid-scale superhot geothermal energy, today announced it has successfully drilled to a depth of 100 meters using its proprietary millimeter wave technology at its field site in Central Texas. This achievement sets a record for millimeter wave drilling and marks a major step forward in unlocking the Earth’s vast geothermal energy as a scalable, baseload energy source.“
- Prior to this year, millimeter wave drilling had only been demonstrated in the laboratory (a few centimeters deep).
- The granite drilled during the field test is the same type of hard rock found in the basement layer of the Earth’s crust.
- Quaise has plans to build a gyrotron with 10x more power.
- A pilot power plant in the Western U.S. is planned for as early as 2028.
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Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 
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