Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next?
warm@kbin.earth 9 hours agoThe challenges are what makes them impractical. The company has investment it needs to repay, so it obviously wants to tell you it's not a big deal. It's much more cost efficient and solar efficient to install them on roofs of homes and building, create shelters from them, or simply just make a field of them. Things like "solar railways" should be a last resort, after we have already covered the obvious solutions.
Transform2942@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I don’t think it’s a slam dunk case. There’s lots of costs associated with installing solar on a roof that may not apply here. I think someone would have to do a comparative lifecycle analysis