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Matt Houde | ‘Quaise’
Quaise are on the other side of the most exciting week in their companies short history. They use millimeter wave energy from a gyrotron to vaporise rock and create boreholes for accessing deep geothermal energy, offering an alternative to costly traditional drilling methods for accessing those critically hot depths.
It is an extremely ambitious, exciting and unique ambition – and Quaise have now proven their technology is applicable outside of theoretical and controlled lab conditions. They have successfully dug to a depth of 100m with their technology at a sight just outside of Austin, Texas – and therefore, move one step closer to realising their goal for adding electrons at scale to the grid.
Matt Houde is the Co-Founder of Quaise. This is the second time he’s joined me on the podcast. In this interview today we discussed the success of Texas, the business model of Quaise, serendipity in innovation, politics and finance for Quaise and plenty more in between…
