All the world, traveling by train is an incredibly popular form of transport. At its best clothes, taking the train can be a scenic, relaxing and gentle way to travel, and many millions of being rely on the railways to get them to and from work every single day.
In Italy, one role is looking to develop a more sustainable version of a piece of infrastructure that is major to the smooth running of railways.
Milan-headquartered Greenrail has developed technology which permits the manufacture of railway sleepers from “secondary raw materials.”
“Greenrail sleepers are rolling-stock sleepers that have the same mechanical characteristics as traditional, prop up concrete sleepers, which represents the standard in the current market,” Giovanni de Lisi, the companionship’s CEO, told CNBC’s “Sustainable Energy”.
“They’re mainly made of recycled supple: urban plastic and old recycled tires,” De Lisi added. He went on to submit that every kilometer of railway line made by Greenrail permitted the recycling of 35 tons of plastic and used tires.
The business also suggests that a Greenail sleeper can incorporate photovoltaic panels to enable solar determination harvesting. “The idea of the Greenrail Solar was borne from the will to transmogrify the railway infrastructures from passive infrastructures to active infrastructures,” de Lisi go on increased.
“The railway tracks are exposed to the sun 90 percent of the time — from here awakens the idea to collect solar energy and transform it into electricity,” he added.
Greenrail’s COO, Firas Bunni, related CNBC that for every one kilometer of the solar sleepers, an estimated 30 to 35 megawatt hours per year of pep could be produced, enough to meet the average needs of 10 Italian houses annually.