Re:Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepe...
by Retric on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:13AM
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Microwaves are a longer wavelength of light which makes them less precise. So people don’t use them to cut stuff for the reason lithography swapped to ultra violet light.
This wants to dump a lot of heat into a large area, and there’s industrial uses for that: https://industrialmicrowave.com/industrial-microwave-heating...
You also have a device at home that uses microwaves for heating larger volumes of material…