Reagan Takes Down Solar Panels

This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency.

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. While jimmy carter was in office the federal energy. They were taken down for. In 1986 ronald reagan removed the solar panels installed by jimmy carter from the white house.

That also meant no solar panels. According to scientific american those same solar panels are now scattered. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria. It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption.

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. Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming. Dirck halstead getty images. The average solar panel from the era produces approximately 1 05 kwh of energy every day.

President ronald reagan took office in 1981 and the solar panels were removed during his administration. 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. Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free. 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.

In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. In perverse fashion dr. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels.

Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed.