Bitcoin-mining space heaters are out, particle accelerator exhaust is now every nerd's most loved home heating.
mkw5053 2 hours ago [-]
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.
clickety_clack 2 hours ago [-]
I wonder if it’s to avoid thermal expansion, and maybe fatigue related to cycling of expansion and contraction.
1970-01-01 2 hours ago [-]
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.
nippoo 6 minutes ago [-]
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...
ck2 3 hours ago [-]
I had to check if maybe it was April 1st already
but that's actually pretty clever and thoughtful
kakacik 2 hours ago [-]
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.
mono442 1 hours ago [-]
Mostly likely they'll supply heat to an existing district heating network.
lapetitejort 2 hours ago [-]
They released a map [0] of their heating network. Maybe you can find your house on it?
This is certainly not going to cause any conspiracy-minded nutjobs to go berserk.
nkrisc 3 hours ago [-]
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.
RandomTeaParty 2 hours ago [-]
At least it's not SERN, with their time machine hackable by a microwave :)
stronglikedan 3 hours ago [-]
It's not CERN. They're really into CERN for some reason.
gilbertbw 2 hours ago [-]
The LHC is a project of CERN
madcaptenor 2 hours ago [-]
and this is coming from a URL on the home.cern domain
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but that's actually pretty clever and thoughtful
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.
[0]: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...