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Swiss solar railway project stopped in its tracks (www.swissinfo.ch)

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Plans to carpet Switzerland’s railway tracks with solar panels to produce a supply of alternative energy have been derailed by the Swiss transport ministry.

Ministry officials told startup Sun-Ways that the project would be too difficult to maintain and could risk train delays.

Sun-Ways had proposed a CHF400,000 ($458,000) plan to install its solar modules on a roughly 100-metre-long section of track near Buttes in Val-de-Travers in the western Swiss canton of Neuchâtel.

The project called for the panels to be inserted on the sleepers between the tracks and this is where the idea ran into trouble.

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[–] uberrice@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

It's solar roadways 2: electric boogaloo.

First fill available space that is fairly 'safe' - so roofs - with solar before even starting to consider this.