{"id":285,"date":"2010-08-06T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2010-08-06T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:59:03","slug":"where-did-the-carter-white-houses-solar-panels-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Where Did the Carter White House&#8217;s Solar Panels Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978 then POTUS Jimmy Carter had a series of Solar Panels installed at the White House to heat the water.. At that\u00c2\u00a0installation\u00c2\u00a0he uttered this prediction&#8230;<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; color: #33302d;\"> &#8220;In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; color: #33302d;\"><a style=\"color: #0aa1dd; text-decoration: none; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/news\/pressrelease.cfm?key=29&amp;newskey=1058\">museum piece<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; color: #33302d;\">, 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.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A few years latter Saint Regan dismantled the working solar heaters and the DoE&#8217;s Renewable Energy efforts with this stunning bit of tripe&#8230;&#8221;<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 14px; color: #33302d;\">It hasn&#8217;t produced a quart of oil or a lump of coal or anything else in the line of energy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, and how has that worked out for us Bonzo?<\/p>\n<p>So where are those old Solar Panels? Glad you asked&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Read more at Scientific American&#8217;s article\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=carter-white-house-solar-panel-array\">Where Did the Carter White House&#8217;s Solar Panels Go?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978 then POTUS Jimmy Carter had a series of Solar Panels installed at the White House to heat the water.. At that\u00c2\u00a0installation\u00c2\u00a0he uttered this prediction&#8230; &#8220;In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. A generation from now, this solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}