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World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider (www.tomshardware.com)
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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.

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[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

It was just comical to imagine the collider would heat up the residents directly like an enormous microwave oven. In the usual wording, households are warmed, and indirectly the residents.