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title: "Gravitational Wave Detectors Turn to Quantum Mechanics"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/gravitational-wave-detectors-turn-to-quantum-mechanics-z3qx4qafc
source_url: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gravitational-waves-quantum-mechanics-nasa
type: article
source: "IEEE Spectrum"
published: 2026-08-22T13:01:09.562Z
updated: 2026-08-22T13:01:28.314Z
tags: ["science"]
reading_time: 17
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Gravitational Wave Detectors Turn to Quantum Mechanics

**[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Startups and researchers are racing to artificially produce hydrogen underground by fracturing iron-rich rock, triggering water-rock reactions that release the gas. Massachusetts-based Eden GeoPower uses pulsed electrical power (via custom Marx generators nicknamed Zeus and Thor) to fracture hard rock with plasma-induced shock waves, achieving up to fourfold increases in hydrogen yield in lab tests. Competing approaches from GeoKiln, Vema Hydrogen, and Koloma use underground heaters, catalysts, and carbon-dioxide injection respectively. ARPA-E awarded $20 million in 2024 to fund 16 teams pursuing stimulated geologic hydrogen, though commercial viability remains unproven and researchers say a combination of techniques will likely be needed.

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