Comment on World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider

FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?!

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Real “But I don’t want to cure cancer” pterodactyl to Spider-Man moment

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    • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Username checks out

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty sure they use celcius in France bruh

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• kossa@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can always freeze excess heat in case you need it later. Just microwave it, when needed!

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