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.
They say if you stand in the middle of the LHC, you’ll be warm for the rest of your life…
Amidala: Because they’ll gain super powers right? Right?
Anakin: smiles
Maybe someone like should check if this is true. Anatoli Bugorski I am looking at you.
I know you mean in the centre of the beam, but you can stand in the middle of the loop of the LHC and be perfectly fine
This thing has been running for over 15 years and they just figured out they could use the waste heat?
I know this is probably a mundane engineering thing, but it sounds like a ramp up to a Black Mirror episode. We just need some kind of social commentary. Maybe the waste energy secretly contain MacGuff-ons, a known chrono-hazard. Only the poorest people will use it, for lack of alternative?
You might want to play Psycho Patrol R.
Wait until the people find out that the waste heat is contained in liquid hydrogen at 3 kelvin.
You can always freeze excess heat in case you need it later. Just microwave it, when needed!
THE LOOP MUST FLOW
