Homes are routinely heated with the largest available particle accelerator - the sun.
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.
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.
There's only about 400MJ of energy in each beam, so that's about 110kWh. The beam is dumped a couple of times a day - so it's on the order of a ~10kW continuous source if spread over the whole day. Which isn't nothing, but is about the same heat as generated by an average single datacentre rack...
I'd assume that the inputs to the system are far, far more than 10 kW continuously. I just ordered 4 servo motors for a modest-sized industrial machine that moves steel plates around to assemble construction equipment, each one is capable of about 8 kW.<p>I'd be unsurprised if the particle accelerator complex generated waste heat on the order of 5 megawatts to generate a particle stream with an energy of 10 kilowatts. That's 0.2% efficient, pretty good!<p>I bet just running the ceiling lights across the complex uses a lot more than 10 kW...
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.<p>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?<p>[0]: <a href="https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/first-observation-of-omega-minus-particle-brookhaven-national-laboratory.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...</a>
I had to check if maybe it was April 1st already<p>but that's actually pretty clever and thoughtful
This is certainly not going to cause any conspiracy-minded nutjobs to go berserk.
At least it's not SERN, with their time machine hackable by a microwave :)
They will happily find anything to be upset about. With people like that, it’s never about the specific conspiracy, they just need <i>any</i> conspiracy and so will invent one if necessary.
It's not CERN. They're really into CERN for some reason.