Geoff 🏴The Large Hadron Collider collides protons. A good source of protons is Hydrogen, just strip the electrons off and away you go.
This little red bottle is their Hydrogen source. Not for a week or a year...that one bottle is enough for 200,000 years.
Simon Denier@_thegeoff Love the fact that someone just handwrote « 100 kV » on the yellow sign, just in case somebody thought there was no serious danger
David Penington@simondenier @_thegeoff
An engineer or physicist - "what do you mean by 'high voltage?' 1kV 6kV? 100kV? 1MV?" It makes a difference"
An engineer or physicist - "what do you mean by 'high voltage?' 1kV 6kV? 100kV? 1MV?" It makes a difference"
@DavidPenington @simondenier I had this conversation with some of my 6th years this week. Our VdG generator is about 50kV. It stings, but is basically harmless. Our 5kV power supply is dodgier, it can keep supplying the "sting" at low current.
The REALLY dangerous thing though? The 400V supply that will happily supply amps, not milli or microamps. That last one needs the special cables.
The REALLY dangerous thing though? The 400V supply that will happily supply amps, not milli or microamps. That last one needs the special cables.