Why did Reagan remove the solar panels from the White House that Carter put in place?
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He wanted to plant Romaine Lettuce up there instead.
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He thought they were UFOs.
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In general, a certain political party doesn't understand natural resources/energy conservation..they don't "get" global warming because they believe it is a vast left-wing conspiracy to harm huge rich corporations...anything that harms the bottom-line of profit they are against, they don't acknowledge or they work their butts off to undermine. Let's see, which political party could that possibly be? "the decider" removed us from participating in the world effort to stem the production of greenhouse gases..hmmm, could he and Reagan be likeminded? :(
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According to the New York Times (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DF113BF937A1575BC0A960948260), they were removed when the roof was being repaired and, at the time, it was not cost-efficient to replace them.
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Too expensive to fix for the White House, but not a college in Maine? That seems like a made up story! They seemed to work fine shortly after FOR TWO DECADES they were sent to Maine: http://www.unity.edu/News/solar1004.htm Sorry, Anonymous, you were mislead.
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Because they were ugly and inefficient. Interestingly, Bush installed 3 solar energy systems at the White House, but nobody hears about that. (Any other politician would have been tooting his own horn.) He had 167 solar energy panels placed atop a maintenance building outside the residence. On two other buildings -- an adjoining maintenance building and the president's cabana -- systems were installed that will help heat the water for, among other uses, the presidential pool and spa. None of the solar energy systems are visible from the street -- you would have to climb to near the top of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building to see them. The systems were designed by Solar Design Associates of Massachusetts. President Bush also uses solar power on his ranch in Texas.
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Because solar technology did not work at the time. It still has a lot of problems.
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