01/30/2026
Laura Dudley
Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator
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.
In the image, we see the eight surface points. Point 8, home of the LHCb Experiment at CERN, is located close to the French town of Ferney-Voltaire.
Read more: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/heating-homes-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator