Interesting that they're still providing 1-5 MW during the multi-year shutdown. The LHC won't even be running but the cooling infrastructure keeps going. Makes me wonder what the steady-state thermal output is across all of CERN. 200 MW peak during operations, but clearly something substantial even when the collider is off.
I wonder how they will pick which homes to heat or generally how to share that with general infrastructure. Also wonder how much will go to Switzerland (which has much denser housing in that part) and how much to France.
I live not far, work in Geneva and have few colleagues living in/next to that circle. For sure they would appreciate using such source of heat if its frictionless integration.
They will happily find anything to be upset about. With people like that, it’s never about the specific conspiracy, they just need any conspiracy and so will invent one if necessary.
Bitcoin-mining space heaters are out, particle accelerator exhaust is now every nerd's most loved home heating.
Interesting that they're still providing 1-5 MW during the multi-year shutdown. The LHC won't even be running but the cooling infrastructure keeps going. Makes me wonder what the steady-state thermal output is across all of CERN. 200 MW peak during operations, but clearly something substantial even when the collider is off.
I wonder if it’s to avoid thermal expansion, and maybe fatigue related to cycling of expansion and contraction.
Just need to find a way to recycle those 3.00TW beam dumps and they can claim they're a fancy, LEED certified green building.
I had to check if maybe it was April 1st already
but that's actually pretty clever and thoughtful
I wonder how they will pick which homes to heat or generally how to share that with general infrastructure. Also wonder how much will go to Switzerland (which has much denser housing in that part) and how much to France.
I live not far, work in Geneva and have few colleagues living in/next to that circle. For sure they would appreciate using such source of heat if its frictionless integration.
Mostly likely they'll supply heat to an existing district heating network.
They released a map [0] of their heating network. Maybe you can find your house on it?
[0]: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...
This is certainly not going to cause any conspiracy-minded nutjobs to go berserk.
They will happily find anything to be upset about. With people like that, it’s never about the specific conspiracy, they just need any conspiracy and so will invent one if necessary.
At least it's not SERN, with their time machine hackable by a microwave :)
It's not CERN. They're really into CERN for some reason.
The LHC is a project of CERN
and this is coming from a URL on the home.cern domain