Solar panels will be rolled onto Swiss railway tracks ‘like a carpet’
www.euronews.com
After long delays, the removable PV system will finally be tested on a western track next spring.

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).

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t know about the practicality of rails as conductor, but it wouldn’t have to be high voltage.

    About the train “deploying tons a day”, where did you get that from?

    article said special train could deploy 1000 panels per day.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      The lower the voltage the higher the loss, there is a reason power lines are hundreds of thousands volts.

      What about the rails being grounded?

      So if the panels are square, like 1km per day? That’s not much for an existing rail line, and when are you going to do it? There are trains rolling there all the time.

      What do you think, is it still a good idea?