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.
Ronald reagan remove solar panels from white house.
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.
The average solar panel from the era produces approximately 1 05 kwh of energy every day.
In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria.
In 1986 ronald reagan removed the solar panels installed by jimmy carter from the white house.
On june 20 1979 the carter administration installed 32 panels designed to harvest the sun s rays and use them to heat water.
The tumultuous saga of solar panels on the white house.
Multiply by reagan s 32 solar panels and you get 33 6 kwh of clean energy every day for free.
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.
They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten.
Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country.
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.
Author natalie goldstein wrote in global warming.
Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels.
In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.
Dirck halstead getty images.
The white house itself once harvested the power of the sun.
President ronald reagan took office in 1981 and the solar panels were removed during his administration.
Reagan who didn t think much of solar energy also allowed the tax credit carter had instated to lapse.
It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption.
That also meant no solar panels.