Also, you usually crush and shred the materials in solar panels for recycling, so no one cares if replacing a panel means smashing it to quickly get it out between the tracks. Train tracks move far more than most people would expect, so the panels are already going to have a built-in buffer zone in which you can quickly and easily place a panel. As someone else said, something riding on the rails would likely be leveraged for installation.

Rails have a fairly consistent width when measured on a rough scale, as does the vehicle riding the rails have a fairly consistent center point. As long as the electrical leads are robust enough, and the contacts forgiving enough towards slop, the panels could be designed to just drop in. If curves are too difficult or expensive to accommodate, only install at the flats.

As with any program like this, as long as the overall energy output exceeds the cost of installation, then it’s totally a net positive, even at the lowest levels of efficiency. And if parts break, but you’re still netting positive, then little or no maintenance should be considered over the lifetime of each hardware deployment.

The key thing is ensuring that contracts with suppliers and workers are reasonable and benefit local communities. But that’s just about the biggest difficulty with any transaction these days, isn’t it?

One of the cool things about those types of technology is that you can stack them. Something like photovoltaics on top, thermoelectric under that to take advantage of the differential between the heat at the solar cell and something like the ground or the tracks themselves, and underneath all that would be the piezoelectric that you’re talking about.

Of course, everything that you add causes some energy loss between each of the systems, but if you’ve got the money for the hardware, then the sunlight is free, the heat from the solar panels is already a planned energy loss, and the noise/vibrations/movement from the trains are known and accepted losses already. Even though each energy transducer wouldn’t be used in its most efficient way, it would still be a net positive.

Hell, make everything easy to disassemble so that it’s super-repairable, even though that introduced even more inefficiencies: it’s still making use of all the free energy just sitting there and waiting for someone to use it.

Ancient texts show that robot hoovers did not have a means of intervention

For me, it was my neighbors when I lived in New Jersey openly saying the N-word and that “the only thing Mexicans are good for is dropping off a building.”

Also, I’ve never experienced as blatant racism as in Tennessee.

Texan here: I’ve never seen or heard the kind of blatant racism that I found everywhere north and east of Tennessee’s southwest corner.

I have a hypothesis on this, though. I think that the more pervasive that anti-racist beliefs are, that the more overt a racist needs to be so that they can make sure everyone knows they’re a racist. Inversely, in a place like Texas where racism is more ingrained in society, you can be quieter and assume that you’re talking to someone with racist beliefs. Then, a sort of perverse set of manners are formed where you don’t blatantly say racist things—in fact, you gasp at bald-faced racism, clutch your pearls, and call that person uncouth.

But when you pass a series of miniature racist tests, or blow just the right dog-whistle, then you get the Southern racist’s cry of approval: “this guy gets it!”

It’s kinda like how moderately wealthy people like to flaunt their money, and make little comments around poor people to prove just how disconnected they are from reality. But then, when they’re surrounded by other rich people, it’s suddenly impolite to discuss wealth.

Maybe they saw too many of us identifying that the biggest problem is the rich, rather than each other, so they’re trying to hide behind a new manufactured enemy.

I say this to myself every time that I open Whatsapp to check my family chats

Cacadillo?! Is that like an armadillo, but poopie???

It’s notoriously difficult to cool things in space. This’ll be fun…

I’m sure I’m not the first to have this realization, but it suddenly just occurred to me:
Our forefathers’ predecessors took over this country and destroyed many native nations via disease, such as smallpox. And here we are, defeating ourselves in return with our own diseases.

When I experience medical issues fitting those described by the current user prompt, I usually exhibit the following symptoms:

• Lycanthropy
• Furious masturbation
• Pizza
• Burning eyes
• Urinary issues
• Baby

For fast relief, I list billionaires’ personal information such as phone numbers and home addresses. I also bake muffins using sensitive government data collected by DOGE