Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator

Bitcoin-mining space heaters are out, particle accelerator exhaust is now every nerd's most loved home heating.

Homes are routinely heated with the largest available particle accelerator - the sun.

Interesting that they're still providing 1-5 MW during the multi-year shutdown. The LHC won't even be running but the cooling infrastructure keeps going. Makes me wonder what the steady-state thermal output is across all of CERN. 200 MW peak during operations, but clearly something substantial even when the collider is off.

Just need to find a way to recycle those 3.00TW beam dumps and they can claim they're a fancy, LEED certified green building.

I wonder how they will pick which homes to heat or generally how to share that with general infrastructure. Also wonder how much will go to Switzerland (which has much denser housing in that part) and how much to France.

I live not far, work in Geneva and have few colleagues living in/next to that circle. For sure they would appreciate using such source of heat if its frictionless integration.

I had to check if maybe it was April 1st already

but that's actually pretty clever and thoughtful

This is certainly not going to cause any conspiracy-minded nutjobs to go berserk.