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

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

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

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won’t really help against bird poop and such

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Hopper cars lose coal and ore all the time

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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

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Trains with hoppers are not present on all railways though.

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

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

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