Reagan Takes Down Solar Panels

The average solar panel from the era produces approximately 1 05 kwh of energy every day.

Reagan takes down solar panels.

Dixy lee ray the chair of the atomic energy commission and author of the nation s energy future took the subpanel seriously and made sure photovoltaics received but a pittance fulfilling her prophecy that solar would remain in her words like a flea on the behind of an elephant in america s energy mix. 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. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed.

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 ronald reagan removed the solar panels installed by jimmy carter from the white house. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.

According to scientific american those same solar panels are now scattered. 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 was quoted as saying the panels were unsightly and unnecessary.

They were taken down for. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten. While jimmy carter was in office the federal energy.

Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free. Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming. Soon after he left office in 1981 president ronald reagan removed the solar panels he d installed at the white house. 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.