Carter Reagan Solar Panels

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.

Carter reagan solar panels.

In the year 2000 this solar water heater. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency. In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house. And so did the tax credits and research funds that had provided the real meat of carter s energy initiatives.

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. 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. They were put into storage in a warehouse in virginia and pretty much forgotten. Carter shows off his new solar panels at the installation ceremony in 1977.

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

That also meant no solar panels. President reagan had declared government the problem not the solution.