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I’d want the same but to place them on top of unused rail tracks. This way we would have a solid base to have them installed and possibly a lot of land availab
by helloguillecl 4y ago
I’d want the same but to place them on top of unused rail tracks.
This way we would have a solid base to have them installed and possibly a lot of land available. The machine would need to support different gaugages.
- grapeskin 4y agoPlace them on basically any commercially unusable and economically “worthless” space. Instead of mowing down forests to lay them 5 inches off the ground, put them on highway noise barriers, build ceilings over commercial walkways (Europe is full of these but without solar panels), spread them out and put them high over parks to provide shaded areas that allow for greenery to grow underneath, and so on. The way solar farms are built now, or at least what I’ve seen, is wasteful. Solar has a great advantage in that it can be built alongside virtually anything, but a lot is currently in cleared out areas that can’t be used for anything else.
- ben_w 4y agoI think you'll be pleased to learn about Flugplatz Brandenburg-Briest. I've been wondering for a decade or so, why building codes almost everywhere don't yet require the entire roof of new buildings (not counting ceiling windows) to be covered in PV?
- Denvercoder9 4y agoThe problem here is that big, concentrated solar farms are far cheaper to install per kWh generated.
- Brometheus 4y agoDeutsche Bahn (German Rails) is doing this right now with tracks in use