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How Does Millimeter Wave Drilling Work?
The process involves transmitting high power electromagnetic radiation and the high frequency part of the microwave spectrum we refer to as millimeter wave. Using that energy to actually vaporize a hole into rock is the same phenomena that takes place in anyone's microwave oven when they're heating up their food. With enough energy, you cannot only melt rock with microwaves but you can actually reduce the rock to a vapor,. which is crazy to think truly a gas like not even pebbles but a gas.