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A strip of track in the Swiss Jura carries 48 solar panels laid flat between the rails and thousands of trains have run over them, but the array covers only 330 feet of a national network
18+ hour, 2+ min ago (812+ words) A single track railway in the western Swiss mountains, pasture on both sides, a station a short walk away. Between the rails, where there is normally gravel and nothing else, a run of dark blue panels lies flat. They sit…...
Wheels have passed inches above 48 solar panels bolted flat between the rails of a working Swiss line more than 11,000 times, and the glass is still making power at ground level without anyone cleaning it
3+ week, 3+ day ago (812+ words) The strip of ground between two railway rails is dead space. Every line on earth has it, and on every line it holds gravel and nothing else. On one regional line in western Switzerland that strip holds dark blue glass…...