I thought the LHC had its own nuclear reactor. I guess not.
They've had it shut down to perform upgrades to be able to pump more energy into and thus hope to be able to triple(ish) the amount of visible reactions for a better probability of finding something new.
I don't see that there's a direct conspiracy of fuel to LHC power use.
Do you realize how much energy it takes to run it at full power?
At full power, I'm calculating around 1,500 gigawatt hours per month. Think large data center x5. That's a lot of heat and energy consumption.
Per their reporting, they were running at about 1.5TW/yr. They'll likely double to triple that. I still do not see a correlation between prices now and the LHC. When oil was at $180/brl in 2008, was that also a tax to cover LHC usage?
This has been planned for years and isn't "all of the sudden" and has been pushed back to 2026ish.
It was $87 a barrel at its peak in 2008. I remember because above $70/barrel fracking with the tech at the time was profitable. We could make it profitable with ~$55/barrel with current tech.
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