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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

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

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      14 minutes ago

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

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      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