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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022
Plain English with Derek Thompson
What Is Millimeter Wave Energy?
This is a company called Quays. They're a spin out of MIT and they took something out of the fusion lab. Scientists have this tool called the gyro-tron that produces millimeter wave energy. Millimeter wave energy is like radio energy, right? It's exactly the same as same particle, right? And so what they've figured out is, you know, that you can drill mechanically very well through the sedimentary rock but at some point you hit basement rock. You shoot it with this sort of super fancy special laser to obliterate it.
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