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World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider

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The world’s largest particle accelerator now has an important new mission: heating thousands of homes. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has begun to funnel the waste heat from its cooling system to a new residential and commercial area in the nearby French town of Ferney-Voltaire, with the new linkup expected to be able to heat several thousand homes at once.

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    World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider — CERN's accelerator leverages its massive cooling network to help slash local carbon emissions
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    From hunting the Higgs to warming your home
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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Wait until the people find out that the waste heat is contained in liquid hydrogen at 3 kelvin.

      • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
        2 months

        the waste heat comes from cryogenics system that keeps all of this helium at below 3K. turns out you need to spend a lot of energy to cool down things to temperatures this low

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Yes, well Mr. Smartypants, did you consider that maybe Mr. Freeze and his family were living in Ferney-Voltaire instead of your ‘technically correct’ explanation?!

      • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
        2 months

        You can always freeze excess heat in case you need it later. Just microwave it, when needed!