Reagan Solar Panels Snopes

Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels.

Reagan solar panels snopes.

Reagan s political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country. Wis dm ronald reagan removed the solar panels on the white house s roof installed by jimmy carter. 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. In 1973 the nixon administration had tasked the atomic energy commission to publish a report the nation s energy future allegedly based on the national science foundation s analysis of the best energy choices for america the nation s energy future proposed spending more than 4 billion for the nuclear option almost 3 billion for the breeder reactor and nearly 1 5 billion for fusion.

It was clear reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption. There was actually a very substantive attempt to move ahead the expanded use of solar energy president ronald reagan took the solar panels down in 1986 when the white house roof was being repaired. Seven years after the west wing roof party in 1986 the symbolic solar collectors met with roof repairs and they were never re installed. Shortly after reagan occupied the white house he had the solar panels ripped out and thrown in the trash.

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. Carter shows off his new solar panels at the installation ceremony in 1977. Can you think of anything more stupid. They were put in a warehouse in virginia and forgotten.

You can watch a short video about one of america s first solar initiatives below. The panels moved almost imperceptibly with the sun.