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    ON TRACK FOR THE FUTURE

    Jul 08, 2021 2 minutes

    Energy-harvesting tracks

    very weekday in the UK alone, 24,000 trains trawl the tracks. They may have reputations for releasing pollutants, but what if these trains generated energy as they moved? Italian company Greenrail has created energy-producing sleepers. A sleeper is the rectangular section between tracks. As trains drive over these, the kinetic energy exerted on the sleepers due to the

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