Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks?

• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next test: solar panel on the bottom of the ocean.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Subnautica entered the chat.

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cause those things are similar!!

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Putting solar panels between rails is as stupid as solar roadways. There is nothing to be gained and just lots of hurdles to overcome to make it as good as a normal solar panel on a roof or on a stick or on a wall.

      Tell me, why on earth would you put solar panels between rails?

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      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I like the idea. Free land use. I wonder if the rails can be used as electric conductors. A special train can deploy tons per day, and could clean them regularly in a highly automated way.

        Unlike roadways, they don’t carry any load.

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• Disaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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