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Trains in Switzerland Are Now Running Over Solar Panels in a First-of-Its-Kind Test
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Or in parking lots. It would also have the added benefit of providing cover for cars.
I don't think they're a lot of surface parking on Switzerland like in the US
I do occasionally see parking lots with solar here in LA! So it is happening in some places.
Every parking lot needs approval of the location, its probably a a pain in the ass, and would disrupt parking while being built which impacts sales (or will be perceived to anyway). If this worked, you only need to deal with a small group of people for a very large space.
Meanwhile...it's mandatory in France for any newly built parking lot over a certain size.
Thats a good way to get it to start happening as it avoids a lot of the problems
You need some serious concrete and/or steel hardware to build a carpark roof that can hold the solar panels without easily being damaged by cars or broken by strong wind, so that massively inflates the costs. If you had a state owned company producing cheap solutions for this it could work though.
Yeah, a lot of the places around me are putting up these massive structures. I don't know why they don't just install open sided polebarns
Probably because people are very bad drivers lol.