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Solar panels between railway tracks? (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Chewie to c/energy

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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).

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[–] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you have to keep the panels clean in order to work. this is not a great position to do so

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hopper cars lose coal and ore all the time

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

This is Switzerland, outside of a small number of corridors the majority of tracks see virtually nothing but passenger trains.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trains with hoppers are not present on all railways though.

[–] eskimofry@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

But these solar panels will be present on those with hoppers.

[–] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

i'd be more worried about about smudgy stuff. they get dusty, then it rains and the panel is covered in a film of dirt. bird shit on solar panels is already plaguing home users

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

could trains have some kind of mechanism that might help? physical contact seems too much, maybe a blower?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago

I'm sure enough air is moved simply from the train moving by, but there will probably still be rocks and stuff flying around

[–] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

won't really help against bird poop and such