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

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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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