Revolutionary solar tunnel powers Europe's first 'green' high-speed trains

[CaptainSnake]

inb4 Rainy days cancel this train.

[jeimizu]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;30349256]I may be a picky traveler, but I enjoy scenery... Is it possible that in the near future we could do see solar panel glass plates which could pick up solar rays, but at the same time let people admire scenery?[/QUOTE]

They're built on top of train tracks, they're not really covering up much scenery.

[Maucer]

[QUOTE=taipan;30347332]Solar panels are actually pretty green if it comes to co2 produced to make them (around 0.5 to 1 year payback time. These arrent car batteries or annything.

Only wind and water energy are greener.[/QUOTE]

A nuclear physicist and the oliluoto nuclear power plant's energy expert told us solar energy is more environment-friendly than wind.

[acds]

[QUOTE=MendozaMan;30350359]Just a heads up, I live near there, and let me tell you - That enfinity company making those big solar panels and huge green projects now?

They don't do it for the "green" you know - they were on the brink of bankruptcy and started pushing out all these huge projects selling their panels cheap as shit in order to acquire funding.

If they didn't have internal problems they would not have cared a single shit about these kind of "hippie" projects. Goes to show how much they care :v:[/QUOTE]

The entire "Green"-thing is just a way to make more money. Want to sell more of a product? Use different, newer (and most probably cheaper) ingredients/materials and slap on a eco sign, and there you go increase in sales.
All this green stuff is just a way to make more money, every corporation knows that, it's only the common consumer that really believes it's because they are so progressive and want to save the planet (which they really don't, but they do care about the increases in profits that derive from it).

Now it's "green", tomorrow it'll be something else (I am in no way saying it's a bad thing by the way, it's damn smart).

[Sobotnik]

Not impressed till I get my fusion reactor.

[Lily]

[QUOTE=Randdalf;30347953]Sounds pretty cool actually, the UK rail system desperately needs an upgrade (slow trains, constant delays, unkempt seating...).[/QUOTE]

I hope they dont do it like in Sweden

They made it fully digital, compared to the old one which was relays, it would have been fine if the designers of the new system wasent total idiots

"SIGNAL PROBLEM PLEASE STAND BY"

And our power cables on the trains falls down
Alot