Saw something today which I thought was interesting regarding solar panels and where to put them. Many people are bothered about seeing swathes of them covering fields etc so a Swiss company have come up with a novel idea. Putting them in a place which is already there, does not affect the either te landscape, nature or animals and only has one drawback.
Were is this Nirvana for solar panels I hear you cry!….in between railway lines.
There are millions of miles of railway lines. This company say they can fit 1 × 2 metre panels and for every 1000km of rail they would use ½ million panels and could generate as much as a 450 megawatts solar farm. Even the trains themselves could use the energy provided.
The one drawback…. trains that still use the old system for getting rid of human waste…which used to be to flush it onto the lines. Surely we are not still doing that!