1.0 link 125272 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mairi-beautyman/large-hadron-collider-is_b_125272.html Someone hit a switch today and began either the greenest or one of the most environmentally disastrous experiments in the world: The Large Hadron Collider. This atom-smashing particle accelerator, reports CNN, is designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe. It carries a ridiculous price tag of $9 billion, and requires 14 trillion electron volts of energy. That's the energy equivalent to running all the households in Geneva...

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