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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    That’s like 0.00000001% of land.

    There is so much unused land, why bother trains and their schedules with a maintenance nightmare between their rails?

    It is just a stupid idea with no upside except the oily greasy dirty solar panels up-side that can’t get cleaned because, … wait for it …, there are Trains running over it!

    I can’t fathom how such a stupid idea got more that 1 meter away from the bar counter.

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      I agree, there’s so much land elsewhere. Even just beside the tracks would be better than between the tracks

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        That could actualy have real world benefits, like when there are few trains, a special small train could go by and let maintenance people off/on there for example.

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      ha, ok. youll be ok. its alright. everything will be just fine.

      why dont you have some nice warm milk and this cookie. youll feel right as rain. .

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        Everything will be fine, except this extraordinarily stupid idea.

        Did you invest in it or something? I mean you have no answers just other than “here take a cookie” lol

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            It did cost 600.000 euros and you call it efficient, for an idea that can be scrapped by thinking straight for 2 minutes lol.

            You think the idea sounds cool, but it’s just a nightmare. If you are really interested in efficiency you should look up engineering and related studies. Or just work with mechanical things. Or both.

            What did you think about solar roadways?