Reagan Takes Down Solar Panels

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Reagan takes down solar panels. 365 days a year 24 year that s 294 336 kwh of dirty energy bought and burned because of one bad decision by ronald reagan. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. While jimmy carter was in office the federal energy. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten.

According to scientific american those same solar panels are now scattered. And it would take producing roughly a square meter of photovoltaic panels or the mirrors for a solar thermal system every few seconds for the next 40 years to harvest one terawatt of energy from. Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria.

Soon after he left office in 1981 president ronald reagan removed the solar panels he d installed at the white house. Reagan was quoted as saying the panels were unsightly and unnecessary. Solar panels finally back on the white house almost 30 years after reagan removed them new 50 comments by nathan ingraham may 9 2014 1 50pm edt. It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption.

In perverse fashion dr. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels. Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free. That also meant no solar panels.

They were taken down for. Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. President ronald reagan took office in 1981 and the solar panels were removed during his administration.

Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming.