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CERN is like any other big customer of the grid. They have very specialized technology on their premises but they shouldn't have to really care how the electri
by thinkcontext 6y ago
CERN is like any other big customer of the grid. They have very specialized technology on their premises but they shouldn't have to really care how the electricity they consume is generated. The point of "the grid" is that it is able to serve all the customers plugged into it. If "the green grid" isn't able to serve CERN, then it will have failed many other customers as well.
- johnchristopher 6y ago> The point of "the grid" is that it is able to serve all the customers plugged into it. Ah, thanks. I somehow thought they'd be more special than this and required more attention. I think it's because of pop scifi tv show where scientists do some experiments and the building gets dark half the time after that because “of the enormous amount of energy required to teleport this cat in time or behind the wall“. > During LHC operations, the CERN site draws roughly 200 MW of electrical power from the French electrical grid, which, for comparison, is about one-third the energy consumption of the city of Geneva; the LHC accelerator and detectors draw about 120 MW thereof.[34] Each day of its operation generates 140 terabytes of data.[35]