Carter Reagan Solar Panels

Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels.

Carter reagan solar panels.

Although carter s solar panels remained on the roof of the white house for seven years throughout ronald reagan s first term and into his second the solar panels were removed for roof repairs and never re installed. That also meant no solar panels. In 1986 when the price of energy was temporarily cheaper and americans minds were less focused on environmental issues president reagan ordered the panels removed from the white house roof. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.

Carter was the first president to take that idea seriously warming the reviewing stand for his inauguration on january 20 1977 with the sun s heat harvested by roughly 1 000 square meters of. In the year 2000 this solar water heater. President reagan had declared government the problem not the solution. Regan felt that the equipment was just a joke and he had it taken down the panels were removed in 1986 when work was being done on the white house roof below the panels.

And so did the tax credits and research funds that had provided the real meat of carter s energy initiatives. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. George charles szego the engineer who persuaded carter to install the solar panels reportedly claimed that reagan s chief of staff donald t.

They were put into storage in a warehouse in virginia and pretty much forgotten. That meant no energy credits.