- 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.
- Homes are routinely heated with the largest available particle accelerator - the sun.
- 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.
by 1970-01-01
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- 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.
- People seem to be misunderstanding what's going on here. Running the particle accelerator generates a lot of heat and thus needs a pretty large scale cooling system. What this is saying is instead of dumping the heat into the atmosphere pump it towards homes.
Is this a good source of heating? I mean yeah, the heat is being generated anyways. Should you build a particle accelerator to heat homes? Fuck no. But if you already have one, why not?
- I had to check if maybe it was April 1st already
but that's actually pretty clever and thoughtful
by pfannkuchen
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- Isn’t every heater technically a particle accelerator?
- This is certainly not going to cause any conspiracy-minded nutjobs to go berserk.
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