alt Hacker NewsThat "circular bit of road" is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the second highest-powered particle accelerator on the planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Heavy_Ion_Collide...
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ErroneousBosh • today at 6:06 PM
Awesome! I had a good nose about the LHC when I was there a few years ago. I'm guessing that site isn't quite so enthusiastic about visitors?
The dump load for one of my wind turbines is a pair of 22Ω resistors recovered from one of CERN's "free for all" scrap piles :-)
"Was" It shut down earlier this year.