Mass transit going greener: Urban tramway to work with solar power

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Mass transit going greener: Urban tramway to work with solar power

Posted Friday, Aug 15, 2008 by sweet

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I've had the pleasure to visit the beautiful island of Tenerife a few times, which is the largest of the Canary Islands. Being a very mountainous island, it's a difficult place to build a railway system, but they're catching up with a new tramway line which serves the island's capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the nearby town of La Laguna. The company that is building it just got the permission to install a very large array of photovoltaic panels to produce electricity directly from sunlight, so that most of the energy needs of this tramway will come from the sun. The 600 kW system is expected to have a lifespan of 20 years.

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Tags: Bus, Greener, Mass transit, Power

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by avava on August 15, 2008, 8:35 am

Oh wait, because it would be a blast.
by bat_iii on August 15, 2008, 8:51 am

If you can't take it, just drive something else, okay? I'm sure you won't be alone.
by elputoyanki on August 15, 2008, 9:01 am

I'd love to see that race against a Veyron...
by failtech on August 15, 2008, 9:12 am

You might want to try a Renault F1 for a more fair race in a straight line!