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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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[–] 97 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The headline makes it sound like this is unintentional.

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It must be some sort of base pessimism thing. My automatic assumption was that it was benevolent and intentional.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It might be about general knowledge of how colliders work, the sentence structure does it no favours, but half way through I realised it had to be intentional/beneficial due to knowing the only possible way a collider generates heat as a byproduct.

    Where as someone that doesn't know much about colliders might read that sentence and assume it's like radiative heat or something.

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