{"id":160651,"date":"2023-03-19T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/worlds-first-solar-panel-carpet-on-railway-tracks-may-generate-electricity"},"modified":"2023-03-19T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T21:24:06","slug":"worlds-first-solar-panel-carpet-on-railway-tracks-may-generate-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/worlds-first-solar-panel-carpet-on-railway-tracks-may-generate-electricity","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first solar panel \u2018carpet\u2019 on railway tracks may generate electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBOE4S9LLwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Swiss startup\u2019s pilot project will focus on the Western public rail system and cost around $437,240.<\/p>\n<p>European startup Sun-Ways has devised a mechanical device to deploy removable solar panels along railway tracks.<\/p>\n<p>This innovation could be implemented on half of the railway lines across the globe, according to the Swizerland-based energy startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss startup\u2019s pilot project will focus on the Western public rail system and cost around $437,240. European startup Sun-Ways has devised a mechanical device to deploy removable solar panels along railway tracks. This innovation could be implemented on half of the railway lines across the globe, according to the Swizerland-based energy startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}