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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] RestrictedAccount 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hopper cars lose coal and ore all the time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

This is Switzerland, outside of a small number of corridors the majority of tracks see virtually nothing but passenger trains.

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

Trains with hoppers are not present on all railways though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But these solar panels will be present on those with hoppers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

i'd be more worried about about smudgy stuff. they get dusty, then it rains and the panel is covered in a film of dirt. bird shit on solar panels is already plaguing home users