Solar Panels White House Reagan

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.

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This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. 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. It would take nearly 30 years for solar panels to be reinstalled at the white house under barack obama in 2014. Solar panels were installed in the late 1970s to provide hot water to the white house residence.

Reagan was quoted as saying the panels were unsightly and unnecessary. The documentary then has someone talking about president ronald reagan r 1981 1988 and then goes into a giant size animated reagan cartoon stomping around and roaring like godzilla and dismantling the panels. They were removed by president reagan in 1986 due to a roof leak and never replaced. 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.

President carter had a rather large solar water heating panel assembly placed on top of the white house. Under reagan funding was cut for the newly formed department of energy and in 1986 when the white house needed roof repairs under the solar thermal panels the reagan administration removed the panels and quietly decided to not reinstall them claiming it simply wasn t a cost effective option. When the reagans moved into the white house in 1981 they inherited 32 solar panels generating carbon free electricity on the west wing roof. Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse.

In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. Five years later president reagan inexplicably had the free clean energy sources removed. When ronald reagan took office in 1981 one of his first actions as president was to have the. The solar panels which were.

In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. George charles szego the engineer who persuaded carter to install the solar panels reportedly claimed that reagan s chief of staff donald t.