The Large Hadron Collider will soon help heat nearby homes

Particle accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have made some groundbreaking discoveries for physics, like measuring the spectrum of antimatter or discovering the Higgs boson – but it's hard to tell how exactly that benefits the average Joe/Jill. Now CERN has announced that the LHC will soon be more directly beneficial to local communities, by diverting some of the waste heat from the collider to help heat thousands of nearby homes.

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Category: Energy

Tags:

• CERN
• Energy
• Geothermal
• Heating
• Large Hadron Collider
• Renewable Energy

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