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Trains in Switzerland Are Now Running Over Solar Panels in a First-of-Its-Kind Test
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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And this is why they only put 100m of panels, to test and validate the idea before commiting to any large scale project. As a swiss citizen too, I'm on the contrary quite happy to see those test projects to give a chance to new technologies (or ways to utilize said technologies) before any real investment.
I think the biggest limitations will be security, someone will definitely be trying to steal them
steal them
train damages them
they get dirty
Wildlife infestation
It makes more sense to put them up out of the way angled toward the sun
just set up bleacher style farms along train routes
Isn’t this the case with all existing panels?
Yeah but you probably need to put them for long distances and you can't really put cameras for hundreds of kilometres instead of let's say the top of a parking lots or an enclosed field