Carter Reagan Solar Panels

George charles szego the engineer who persuaded carter to install the solar panels reportedly claimed that reagan s chief of staff donald t.

Carter reagan solar panels.

They are perhaps the most famous solar panels ever made installed on the roof of the white house by president jimmy carter who said at the time in 1979. They were put into storage in a warehouse in virginia and pretty much forgotten. 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. Although carter s solar panels remained on the roof of the white house for seven years throughout ronald reagan s first term and into his second the solar panels were removed for roof repairs and never re installed.

That meant no energy credits. 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. Carter was the first president to take that idea seriously warming the reviewing stand for his inauguration on january 20 1977 with the sun s heat harvested by roughly 1 000 square meters of. The panels became objects of increasing indifference.

And so did the tax credits and research funds that had provided the real meat of carter s energy initiatives. President reagan had declared government the problem not the solution. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels.

Carter shows off his new solar panels at the installation ceremony in 1977. In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria.