Carter shows off his new solar panels at the installation ceremony in 1977.
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.
That meant no energy credits.
And so did the tax credits and research funds that had provided the real meat of carter s energy initiatives.
Ronald reagan helped tear down the berlin wall and he also helped tear down the white house s solar panels.
President reagan had declared government the problem not the solution.
In 1991 unity college an environmentally centered college in maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria.
The panels became objects of increasing indifference.
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.
They were put into storage in a warehouse in virginia and pretty much forgotten.
In the year 2000 this solar water heater.
In 1979 jimmy carter in a forward looking move installed solar panels in the roof of the white house.
That also meant no solar 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.
This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the reagan presidency.