The UK’s Guardian wrote that a rail tunnel in Belgium that spans two miles, built to shelter trains from falling trees, is now hosting a solar power project.
The tunnel was built to protect a stretch of the high-speed line that links Paris, France to Amsterdam, Holland. At Antwertp, Belgium, the lines passes an ancient, protected forest, so that’s where the falling tress come in, and the tunnel, which has been topped with 16,000 solar energy panels. These will produce electricity to help power Antwerp station, or the equivalent of all trains in Belgium for one day per year.
Check out the video below. The soundtrack sounds like the score of a 1970s TV show. A few comments on YouTube were not very flattering towards the music – but hey, the idea is brilliant and the song is not so bad, after all …
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