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

submitted 3 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] 66 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

Jeez, solar freaking railways.

Railways are dirty, brake dust, oil and lube leaking, human waste (from a car toilet if there is no tank).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

This is Switzerland, not India. Also, it's a test. It's designed to find out exactly how serious those problems are and if they prevent the system from being effective.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Is this the same bunch of people that wanted to make solar roads/bike lanes too?

I could see a solar road working with some kind of passive heating medium circulated underneath but even then, the maintenance on that would be a nightmare. We can barely maintain all the roads we have already, and that's just goopy rocks and grading.

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