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Or: electrify the trains and connect them to the grid. It will be more resilient and less constraining. At least, one could say: let's occupy the available spa
by Bengalilol 1y ago
Or: electrify the trains and connect them to the grid. It will be more resilient and less constraining.
At least, one could say: let's occupy the available space between the tracks to produce some energy (https://www.sun-ways.ch/en https://www.sun-ways.ch/en). At least...
- clickety_clack 1y agoThat’s what I initially thought, but I could see it being cheaper for the railway company to build solar for themselves. They get the power at cost, and can build a system that can handle lower uptime/greater availability, with storage etc, so that they can avoid paying to upkeep high availability power. I don’t know though. I assume someone with a really nice spreadsheet has looked at this before deciding to pay to build all this.
- davnicwil 1y agoI would think a huge additional advantage of this solar and on-car batteries combo would be resiliency to single points of failure and massive long term savings in infra and power costs?