LHC is back with big energy boost

I wonder what it's impact is on global warming. Seems to take a lot of electricity to run it.

What? No comments from the scientific community?

Maybe they're using hydro power, or nuclear.

Likely Nuclear, given the location.

I tried to find an answer, gonavy, but no luck. Perhaps someone knows a source.

This is a paper on the evolution of accelerators that covers quite a lot of the energy requirements but, on skimming it, I don't see it in a form that satisfies your question.

Nevertheless, it may be interesting.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beaml ... wanted=all

Better to use electricity for this purpose than all the electronic toys people seem to need.

What's your issue with this? Are getting all Suzuki-hater here by saying the advance of science should be energy free otherwise it's hypocritical?

Hell, I'd support them taking all the energy you use to post to support a partical accelerator.

Geneva the city has 200,000 people.

LHC draws twice that, that's a city of 400,000..... Kitchener, ON


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French.

Nuclear.


Discounted price, so everyone pays.


http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/embe ... n-collider

Yup. Hypocritical as hell. But hey, nobody's perfect, even scientists.

What's your issue with this? Are getting all Suzuki-hater here by saying the advance of science should be energy free otherwise it's hypocritical?

Hell, I'd support them taking all the energy you use to post to support a partical accelerator.
That's ok, I've been saving my farts in a jar to donate to their project.

I don't have your advanced reasoning skills. Please explain, in simple terms, how this is hypocrisy?

What's your issue with this? Are getting all Suzuki-hater here by saying the advance of science should be energy free otherwise it's hypocritical?

Hell, I'd support them taking all the energy you use to post to support a partical accelerator.
That's ok, I've been saving my farts in a jar to donate to their project.

Probably the most useful exhaust coming out of your many orifices.

Even if I had an opinion on Global Warming, I wouldn't give a shit because this thing has the potential to leap us forward in our understanding of so much. Frankly, that's worth it.