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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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[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 30 points 5 days ago

the waste heat comes from cryogenics system that keeps all of this helium at below 3K. turns out you need to spend a lot of energy to cool down things to temperatures this low

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Yes, well Mr. Smartypants, did you consider that maybe Mr. Freeze and his family were living in Ferney-Voltaire instead of your 'technically correct' explanation?!

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 6 points 5 days ago

Real "But I don't want to cure cancer" pterodactyl to Spider-Man moment

[-] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Username checks out

this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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