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Old 16th June 2015, 03:39   #16
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Re: Indian Railways rolls out Solar-powered Coach

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Solar panels can even be put in the arctic. There will be some sunlight some time in the year to generate electricity. Point is if it will be cost-effective enough..

If for the same dollar investment you can generate much more electricity, safely & reliably on stations, why would you put that dollar on this long shot?

Lets revisit this thread in an year to see if this initiative has made any progress. but anyone know how the bio-toilet initiative has come along?
This is what info on the status of the project. http://indianexpress.com/article/cit...far-from-over/

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Old 16th June 2015, 07:12   #17
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but anyone know how the bio-toilet initiative has come along?
Noted economist Bibek Debroy, who was the chair of the recently convened Railway Reforms Committee, wrote a series of articles on the present situation of IR and one of them touched on this subject. Here it is

http://swarajyamag.com/columns/railw...petition-viii/
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Super. Now if we can get those solar panels to generate more power to drive the wheels, we'll have a Tesla train.
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