Comment on Switzerland Unveils World’s First Operational Solar Railway Project
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIt’s putting e not the best idea but it’s considerably less stupid than those, considering they managed to actually build one
Mihies@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah, we’ll see. There are so many possible issues with this, starting with why. We still have plenty of roofs to cover which are easy, predictable and yield better output for much lower price. Then there are issues with vibrations, efficiency and pollution at least.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Don’t get me wrong I still think it’s dumb
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Converting roofs into solar is simple and cool if you don’t know anything about any of that. Then so many problems emerging, you start going crazy and earn for the simplicity and straightforwardness of a floating solar platform.
And that’s before you remember that not all of the world is US and most people don’t actually live in a detached house with a roof.
Mihies@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Huh, what? While placing solar panels on the roof isn’t ideal, it’s far from problematic. And roofs aren’t only on resident houses, you have plenty of industrial ones which are usually even better as they are flat.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
From the government perspective, first of all you need to redesign your electrical grid, from scratch, everything, from ground up. After which you will be left with the electrical production you can’t predict, can’t control, can’t regulate, which will grow or shrink at the intervals you, once again, can’t control or even predict. And that’s if we’re talking about sensitive models of giving people subsidies so they can put panels themselves. If I start thinking about the logistics of some agency putting solar on people’s roofs, my head starts hurting.