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This idea - found via @fj and @temptoetiam - to install solar panels between train tracks strikes me as ridiculous
Railway tracks are grimy. Things fall off trains, like melting snow mixed with grit in winter. You can't incline the panels. How are you going to keep the panels clean enough? Because you absolutely don’t want to stop the train traffic to do it
@utzer But that latter is *exactly what you don't want to have to do* - because you need all your rail capacity for, well, running trains *to transport things* @fj @temptoetiam
@jon They already do all sorts of maintenance on the tracks and related infrastructure. It's not hard to envision a solution for periodic cleaning of solar panels. Making it work neatly will surely require some tweaking, but I can't see this being a particularily hard problem.
@bnordbo Then sorry, you're ill informed.
@jon How can you be so sure about that?
@bnordbo How can you? Given you seem to not have read any of the other posts here about it? And do you work on railway topics?
@jon I'm honestly not sure – perhaps I'm just too early on the Dunning-Kruger curve. :-)
But I'm intrigued that you – who should know a lot about railways – does not come up with better arguments on why this is a bad idea.
So far in this thread the only major problem I've seen mentioned is tamping. It would seem to make the solution useless except perhaps for tracks with very low/light use.