Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator

Une photo du LHC, qui chauffe désormais des maisons à Ferney Voltaire.

The 27-km LHC has eight surface points. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of Ferney-Voltaire. (Image: CERN)

Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area

28 January, 2026

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