World's First Solar Powered Train - Byron Bay Australia

This is the worlds first Solar Powered Train, it made its first 6 km round trip, between the town of Byron Bay and North Beach in NSW Australia, making it the world’s first solar powered train, December 2017.
The Byron Bay Railroad Company, searched the country and found a dilapidated vintage1949-built 600 class train, called a ‘red rattler’, and spent $4 million dollars to restore it and get it up and running, including another $1.8 million dollars on restoring the 3km disused rail line, Plus a further $1 million dollars was spent on the train shed and two platforms at each end.
On its roof, the train boasts 6 kW of custom-made flexible solar panels, and are backed up by 77 kWh of battery storage, which has taken the place of one of the train’s two original diesel engines.
The train only uses about 4kwh for each one way trip, and has been able to make 16 trips, and only use 25% of its on board battery power, without any top up charging.
The train can also recharge while stopped at each station, which are also equipped with solar panels on the roofs.
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[@hariseldon3786]

We need more millionaires like that dude bc he is a benefit to society... can't take it with you! Laying the tracks for the future...

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Handsome old beast Renovated reused and updated, Quite nifty, thank you

[@TerenceKearns]

Wow. I had no idea this existed and I live in Murwillumbah nearby. I got goosebumps when i saw the interior of the red rattler. I used to catch these on the western trainline in sydney all the way to Strathfield every school day back in the 80s. Ill have to take the kids for sure, although they've grown up now. Love solar power off grid.

[@daveweiss5647]

Very cool!

[@jamienorris007]

From Little things. Big things grow.

[@sparXKuijper]

Just Start building them EVERYWHERE !!!

[@tankndg26]

The amount of energy the panels gives is a fraction of what it needs…there is no cost value…it for show only…

[@NewtonInDaHouseYo]

It seems to work for this specific application: It’s a relatively short distance and the train travels at a low speed. I like it!

[@markaurelius61]

@@NewtonInDaHouseYo And looks flat, and doesn't run very often

[@licencetoswill]

in fact the system makes more power that the train needs, and exports the rest to the grid.

[@jeanmcfarlane4118]

What happned to this voice over guy

[@lokesh303101]

Hybrid Trains!

[@djwindkind]

[@Carla-lovesfruit]

Does this train run on neutrino energy from the sun's power source?

[@qtheplatypus]

@@Carla-lovesfruit it runs in photon energy.

[@ItsGroundhogDay]

Interesting but so prohibitively expensive that it's not practical or viable. which means that most governments will follow suit because they will never run out of your money.

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

I'm disappointed it's not powered by fairy floss, organic ice-cream, unicorn farts and heaps of taxpayer money in the name of... Oh, hang on...

[@thomasciarlariello]

dystopian

[@qtheplatypus]

How?

[@thomasciarlariello]

Ever see film "No Escape"(1994) where a mag lev monorail herds prisoners,

[@qtheplatypus]

@@thomasciarlariello no. I’ve seen “bullet train” where there is a gun battle on the Shinkansen. But just because I saw it in a movie doesn’t make me scared of going on the Shinkansen. This isn’t a maglev btw it is a very normal heavy rail set up with solar panels.

[@thomasciarlariello]

American farm lobby and rail transit lobbies of voter blocks have a military complex to impose agricultural rail construction on others such as how by fall of 1945 the United States leveled whole mountains to detriment of hydroelectric so Shinkansen bullet train was only a scheme to export Pennsylvania steel smelted by Pennsylvania coal to avoid labor unrest of how Japan could not produce DOT roadworthy steel until 1970s. Other issue is America's guilt of how coolies were crucified under rail transit tracks during construction and how Roosevelt herded Asians into internment camps so of Freudian Projection it diverts attention. Male bias of how garden outdoor rail transit trolly train enthusiast ride a locomotive's cab astride is Freudian male sexual aggression so did you see "7% Solution"(1976) of how "Railways & War Before 1918" by Bishop & Davis describe monorails used to herd people like cattle since even "Scientific American" 1884 described Decauville Portable Railway carried disassembled on elephants was used in Bolan Pass to herd people when British in of India fought Russia over Afghanistan. Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel states "only idiotic morons are satisfied from construction of rail transit tracks since intelligent would go insane from such a repetitive task" similar to Carl Sagan's quote "intelligent would lose interest in something as dull boring as growing tomatoes".

[@Jordanpgates1]

I cannot imagine a larger waste of money than this. Is this a joke?

[@WonderWorldYTC]

is saving the planet a joke? need more solar tech.

[@qtheplatypus]

No one is forcing you to ride it.

[@aussienscale]

@@WonderWorldYTC Are you actually being serious ? Because you obviously have not got a single clue about this train !!

[@Nelsongrantscams]

somebody is fooling someone, does it sit fro a week and hope its sunny so it can charge onboard batteries make a trip and repeat? Possibly sit for a couple weeks recharging when there are few full clear sunny days?

[@markaurelius61]

It says it runs once an hour

[@licencetoswill]

it makes more power than it uses and exports the rest to the grid.

[@Nelsongrantscams]

@@licencetoswill I guarantee there is no power left over, it can charge at each station and still has one diesel engine of two.

[@qtheplatypus]

@@Nelsongrantscamsit is in the subtropical zone. Lots of sunlight. There is very little rolling friction and no height. This means that it takes very little energy to move two light weight carriages. Trains are very energy efficient. There is a mining train in WA that uses the power generated by going down hill fully loaded to go back up hill empty.

[@aussienscale]

A complete load of rubbish and completely misleading !!

[@qtheplatypus]

@@aussienscale how? There are many videos of this train including from Tom Scott.

[@qtheplatypus]

I did a little back of the envelope calculation. The motors on the train are 180 hp which is 134kW. At 300W/m^2 that is about 430m^2 which is a little bit more then a tennis court. So it is feasible to have the station + roof top solar powering it. But this is assuming that the engine is running all the time; if you factor in regenerative breaking, coasting and 1 hour between scheduled runs it is very doable.

[@aussienscale]

@@qtheplatypus hence the load of rubbish, nothing more than a gimmick, not scaleable, no actual commercial value and barely anyone actually uses it, the odd person from Element resorted that is about it. Doing an hourly service at best, and I know for fact less than that due to lack of passengers, over a 3k track is nothing to crow about !!