CARTER'S SOLAR PANELS: Half of the 32 solar panels that once heated water for the Carter White House still grace the roof of the Unity College cafeteria in Maine.
Posted on 08/06/2010 10:38:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono
The White House itself once harvested the power of the sun. On June 30, 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 panels designed to harvest the sun's rays and use them to heat water.
Here is what Carter predicted at the dedication ceremony: "In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy…. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people."
For some of the solar panels it is the former that has come to pass: one resides at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, one at the Carter Library and, as of this week, one will join the collection of the Solar Science and Technology Museum in Dezhou, China. Huang Ming, chairman of Himin Solar Energy Group Co., the largest manufacturer of such solar hot water heaters in the world, accepted the donation for permanent display there on August 5. After all, companies like his in China now produce some 80 percent of the solar water heaters used in the world today......
CARTER'S SOLAR PANELS: Half of the 32 solar panels that once heated water for the Carter White House still grace the roof of the Unity College cafeteria in Maine.
they were replaced by the evil Reagan with a coal-fired furnace fed by imported child laborers.
The standard story is that Reagan had the panels taken down, although I don’t know the truth to that or, if true, why he did so.
Reagan had them removed immediately.
Then he got on the horn to Iran.
Actually Solar water-heating is feasible and cost-effective NOW, unlike photovoltaics [which need some more development], in places like Arizona and New Mexico.
The list, ping
And no doubt, they are still working, assisting the tin roof in providing shelter from sun and rain.
They were stolen by a Giant Rabbit...............
LOL!
I hope the evil Reagan did not fuel the furnace witht the imported child laborers.
Oh, no, of course not. He ate them. A liberal colleague told me so.
Patricia Schroeder was the giant rabbit wasn't she?
Only when they got tired or started to cry.
I heard the little tykes were stacked up in the Rose Garden like cordwood...
Guess that better then child-fired furnace fed on imported coal
I hear ya. They clog the flue and the smoke has a slightly unpleasant odor. I prefer seasoned imported labors as a heating fuel.
I wonder when Jimmy put then in I wonder what ever happen to that LOL!
The panels were made from re-cycled “Billy Beer” cans!
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