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Solar panels between railway tracks? (www.euronews.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm all for putting solar panels all over the place, but won't these get dusty and oily and need loads of cleaning after trains pass over?

Also, costing €623,000 over three years sounds rather expensive for just 100m (although that roughly equates to 11KW).

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not on the sides of the railroad? Often, there is significant free space on both sides of the track.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I was about to comment that it makes more sense to put panels in open space, but looking into it does appear some numbers crunchers did the math on efficiency gains from being able to swap old panels with a dedicated machine on the rails, versus the other option.