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CERN has a long standing agreement with the French grid for power, as well as the Swiss grid. There are 30 days or so in mid winter when they don't run any experiments due to cost and availability of electricity. CERN also has older diesel backup generators so they can do a powered shut down to avoid damage in the event that both grids fail somehow. CERN also has a newer gas turbine and thermal recovery co-generation plant.
Since all high energy experiments are well planned in advance, electricity suppliers know when to expect increased loads. It's kind of like your local NASA installation or something running electricity-intensive testing, frequently at night when local demand is lower anyway.
It would be kind of crazy if they somehow blew the grid, though. I don't suppose First Energy is running generation plants on the the French grid?
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Congratulations to the CERN LHC Team!
Timpraetor | 09/10/08
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Let's hope not.
tomam | 09/10/08
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Strangely enough
seanferd | 09/11/08
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Big Deal!
Scared Sh*tless | 09/10/08
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Coilliding protons is nothing new
seanferd | 09/10/08
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Doomsday machine
dasprem@... | 09/10/08
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Doomsday machine?
ProfQuill | 09/10/08
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Doomsday Machine!
seanferd | 09/12/08
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Power loss?
mgrider | 09/11/08
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That stuff is all planned
seanferd | 09/11/08
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