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Using a Circulating Purge Gas in the Borehole for Material Removal
This is not a large drill cutting like you would get from mechanical destruction with a bit. It's actually an ash produced post vaporization. And so there's a mass balance where we're adding much more purge gas into the borehole than we are taking rock vapor out. So that ensures we can actually dilute and get this ash out of the hole without leaving it down there and plugging things up.