Reagan Solar Panels Snopes

Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming.

Reagan solar panels snopes. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels. Shortly after reagan occupied the white house he had the solar panels ripped out and thrown in the trash. Can you think of anything more stupid. In 1973 the nixon administration had tasked the atomic energy commission to publish a report the nation s energy future allegedly based on the national science foundation s analysis of the best energy choices for america the nation s energy future proposed spending more than 4 billion for the nuclear option almost 3 billion for the breeder reactor and nearly 1 5 billion for fusion.

The solar panels 3 852 of them shimmered above 10 acres of jimmy carter s soil where peanuts and soybeans used to grow. You can watch a short video about one of america s first solar initiatives below. It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption. Wis dm ronald reagan removed the solar panels on the white house s roof installed by jimmy carter.

One of the 32 solar thermal panels that captured energy on the roof of the white house more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in china by david biello on august 6 2010 the. President ronald reagantook office in 1981 and the solar panels were removed during his administration. Carter shows off his new solar panels at the installation ceremony in 1977. There was actually a very substantive attempt to move ahead the expanded use of solar energy president ronald reagan took the solar panels down in 1986 when the white house roof was being repaired.

The panels moved almost imperceptibly with the sun. Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed.