Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• COASTER1921@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And you can repair them without needing to shut down a whole railway. All these projects to put solar panels in novel places are totally pointless and solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

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  • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah until we literally run out of roofs, fields, parking lots, and fucking ocean space and are contemplating a fucking Dyson sphere I really don’t understand these projects.

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  parking lots would require the government to own said parking lots. its why you often see them at schools (because its government funded)

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• Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In France, solar panels are mandatory for living roofs of commercial and industrial buildings and covered car parks occupying 500 m² or more of ground surface.

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• essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I doubt they’re doing this and only this.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wouldn’t make much sense to put up a solar roof after doing this. it would block the sun.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Covering parking lots is expensive and you lose spots to supports and there’s the inevitable car hitting those supports.

  Putting panels between rail lines doesn’t need a structure so it should be far cheaper and easier to install and fix, even if they aren’t ideal.

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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They will get dirty very fast, either from dirt thrown around by passing trains, or by the brake dust.

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also the heavy vibration that can occur when a train passes over

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It shouldn’t be too hard to clean them with something running on the tracks, but it does seem less than ideal.

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A chain or wire hanging off a train car and dragging along will “clean” them real quick…

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