Solar panels could be installed in the spaces between railway tracks in world first

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Solar panels could be installed in the spaces between railway tracks in world first.

 

Swiss start-up Sun-Ways is installing panels near Buttes train station in the west of the country in May, pending sign-off from the Federal Office of Transport.

As the climate crisis demands that we speed up Europe’s energy transition, developers have been seeing new potential in unusual surfaces.

 

Roadsides, reservoirs and farms are all finding space for solar systems. And Germany’s Deutsche Bahn is also experimenting with adding solar cells to railway sleepers.

 

 

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/17/solar-panels-could-be-installed-in-the-spaces-between-railway-tracks-in-world-first

 

 

[NanLaew]

Plenty work keeping them clean. Now there's a job.

 

Maybe if Switzerland had a refugee problem?

[connda]

Caveat - I like solar at home.  It really is useful and helps cut down the electric bills.

Now reality:  Solar is not "Clean Energy."  It gives the illusion of being 'clean' as long as you only stare at those nice 'clean' solar panels.
Now look around.  The mining, the manufacturing process, and the eventual disposal of all those millions and millions of panels which have an unsustainable life-cycle of use - all of which create pollution.  They are far from being "clean energy."  Personally I consider them as "convenient energy" at best.

[Artisi]

25 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

So you will sticking with clean oil instead?

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/thailand-rushes-avert-spill-after-accident-oil-storage-ship-2023-03-16/#:~:text=A spill from an undersea,the slick reached local beaches.

seems you missed the point, The OP said solar is not clean energy , sure the power generation is clean but the manufacture and disposal is far from it.

[Bandersnatch]

14 minutes ago, Artisi said:

seems you missed the point, The OP said solar is not clean energy , sure the power generation is clean but the manufacture and disposal is far from it.

Copper; Glass; Silicon and the aluminum frame can all be recycled.
 

Did you even bother to read the link I posted above before replying?

[freedomnow]

A computer server farm is heating a local swimmming pool in UK in a first.

Obvious once its done, but not until.

 

So many closed due to heating costs in recent times.

 

These synergy solutions should emerge more..eco space use...hot/cold...cold/hot etc.

 

[Crossy]

"Please do not use the lavatory whilst the train is passing over the solar panels!".

 

Sorry, couldn't resist

 

But trains really are pretty mucky things when it comes to dropping oil and other stuff on the tracks. Installation locations would have to be chosen carefully.

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

"Please do not use the lavatory whilst the train is passing over the solar panels!".

 

Sorry, couldn't resist

 

But trains really are pretty mucky things when it comes to dropping oil and other stuff on the tracks. Installation locations would have to be chosen carefully.

Yep, between the tracks is nonsense 

[onthedarkside]

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