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- Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Accelerator
- Topic: What sort of noise does the worlds largest machine make?
- Replies: 11
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Re: What sort of noise does the worlds largest machine make?
Clearly, for a machine that consumes 120MW of power, all you will hear is the cooling system! It's like millions of window air conditioners all running at once.
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Accelerator
- Topic: 12/2/09 power loss and many systems down
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38652
Re: *** MAJOR power loss and many systems down
A couple of things: Backup power is relatively straight forward. Critical control systems will be powered through many uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) running on batteries. The UPS batteries have to last just long enough for the diesel generators to spin up and stabilize, about 30 seconds in mo...
- Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:26 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Creating "Sparks"
- Replies: 164
- Views: 306755
Re: Creating "Sparks"
Although cosmic rays are described as incredibly energetic, an individual particle (most likely a proton) has only about 50 joules of energy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray ). A stick of dynamite has about 2 million joules of energy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite ). The trick in i...