LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts

The LHC has become the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, weighing in at over one trillion electron volts. "Until now the LHC had been operating at a relatively low energy of 450 billion electron volts. On Sunday, engineers increased the energy of this 'pilot beam,' reaching 1.18 trillion electron volts at 2344 GMT. The previous record of 0.98 trillion electron volts has been held by the Tevatron accelerator since 2001. The LHC is eventually expected to operate at some seven trillion electron volts."

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Greenhouse Gases

[Atomm]

seven trillion electron volts....

How does that equate to greenhouse gas submissions? And how can the EU hold the Global Warming Conference on one hand, and then generate this kind of power on the other?

Re:Greenhouse Gases

[Jawn98685]

Know much about electricity and it's units of measure?
We didn't think so, so it's a silly question to even ask if you have any grasp at all of physics and the potential that this research holds.

Now, go troll somewhere else. Fox News would be a good start.

Re:Translation into sensible units

[Anonymous Coward]

If you, like me, are not accustomed to seeing electron volts in this dumbed down prefix-less format, you'll be grateful to find that I've translated the orders of magnitude in the article into a more conventional form:

1 trillion electron volts = 1 TeV
1 billion electron volts = 1 GeV

You're being stupid actually. Don't try to act smart by saying you failed to comprehend what 1 trillion of x means, because that makes you look more retarded than those seem to think would understand it.

Re:but where

[Anonymous Coward]

faggot mormons in Utah depleted the world quota for outrage already

Debt?

[minion]

Is there a way to convert these volts into dollars to help pay down our national debt? Oh wait, never mind, its only supposed to reach 7 trillion volts.. That wouldn't be enough to help pay off ObamaCare(tm).