Reagan Removed Solar Panels

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

Reagan removed solar panels.

Believe it or not there was a time when the white house was partially powered by solar panels. The head of the government s photovoltaic program dr. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten. I was losing all my best people prince complained.

During the energy crisis of the late 1970s then president jimmy carter called on americans to conserve power and to prove that he wasn t just all talk he had an expansive row of solar panels. In 1986 ronald reagan removed the solar panels installed by jimmy carter from the white house. Five years later president reagan inexplicably had the free clean energy sources removed. It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption.

The solar panels which were. Morton prince lamented the consequences of the new administration s war on solar cells. It was later removed by president ronald reagan who shipped the panels off to unity college in maine where they still heat the water for the school s cafeteria. Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country.

Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed. Removed solar panels. That was probably the case during the energy crisis of the 1970s when president jimmy carter donned a sweater turned down his thermostat and had a solar powered water system installed. Unsurprisingly reagan slashed the meager carter outlay for photovoltaics by two thirds.

With solar panels on the white house this would be an example to the rest of america and the world that we could actually do something to fix the environment. Then ronald reagan became president. But that didn t last as they were taken down only a few years after they were installed despite being in perfect working order. Reagan was quoted as saying the panels were unsightly and unnecessary.

Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming. Reagan didn t seem to care about the environment or our image because he took the solar panels down. Reagan took solar panels off the white house july 17 2017 when the reagans moved into the white house in 1981 they inherited 32 solar panels generating carbon free electricity on the west wing roof. The white house sported solar panels until reagan removed them in 1986.