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tiktaktok_65 t1_jedma22 wrote

Reply to comment by sybarius in Swiss solar tech can be rolled out on railway tracks ‘like a carpet’ by pobody-snerfect

toilets in swiss trains no longer are a hole to the outside they all operate chemical toilets and capture content in canisters. not everyone is using ancient train tech.

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sybarius t1_jedmfi6 wrote

I wasn't aware of that.

Come to think of it, it must have been more than 10 years ago when i last used a toilet on a train.

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tiktaktok_65 t1_jednl1v wrote

yeah. these things changed, i remember the old days and the pleasant smell at stations if someone took a dump.

biggest concern i see with this rollout/rollin solar carpets other than it proving to check all technical concerns would be the importance train track gravel has come to play as biome for small wildlife. surveys have shown a surprisingly vast amount of animals and insects having adopted to the special conditions at train tracks, especially small reptiles.

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