Tell your state leaders to proactively support and incentivize electromagnetic geothermal!

Startup Quaise is about to conduct their first field tests of their pioneering new geothermal energy technology in Texas. It might be called “electromagnetic geothermal” or perhaps “extremely enhanced geothermal” — instead of using just traditional drilling rigs like the rest of the fast-growing enhanced geothermal field (a la Fervo Energy’s successful clean power plants in the U.S. Southwest), Quaise adds a gyrotron originally developed for nuclear fusion experiments that fires an electromagnetic beam that can liquefy rock at 2,000°C, leaving behind cooling obsidian.

Eventually, the company hopes to use this technology to cleanly drill 3 to 20 kilometers deep, possibly creating the deepest holes ever and hopefully unlocking super-hot geothermal heat for 24/7 clean power anywhere on Earth. The long-term potential is amazing!

“Bring a gyrotron, bring the waveguide, bring the power supply, plug it into the drilling rig…

There’s thousands of drilling rigs in the world. You just go and plug and play into them.”

— Quaise CEO Carlos Araque

It’s still very, very early days for electromagnetic geothermal technology. That means there’s a spectacular opportunity right now to proactively create a supportive legal and regulatory environment to enable the development of a new technological industry to help provide cheap, clean energy 24/7. Just adding a few lines to state legal codes to help create a clear, fast, and supportive permitting and regulatory process for any future electromagnetic geothermal work could help create a “virtuous cycle” enabling and encouraging future innovations.

Tell your state leaders to proactively support and incentivize electromagnetic geothermal!