Ronald Reagan Remove Solar Panels From White House

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

Ronald reagan remove solar panels from white house. The white house itself once harvested the power of the sun. On june 20 1979 the carter administration installed 32 panels designed to harvest the sun s rays and use them to heat water. Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming. Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free.

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. Over the last 40 years solar panels have been installed and removed on the white house under three different presidents starting with jimmy carter installing panels and reagan removing them less than 10 years later. Dirck halstead getty images.

In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. In 1986 ronald reagan removed the solar panels installed by jimmy carter from the white house. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house.

That also meant no 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. Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse. 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.

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. Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country. It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption. The average solar panel from the era produces approximately 1 05 kwh of energy every day.