The fate of the panels is even more poignant by the fact that on the day of their installation on the white house roof president carter stated.
The white house solar panels.
It all started back in 1979 when then president jimmy carter installed 32 solar panels on the white house roof.
The white house itself harvests the power of the sun.
One for landscape maintenance personnel the other for the presidential pool and spa.
The first solar panels were placed on the white house more than 30 years earlier by jimmy carter and removed by the very next administration.
But he wasn t the first president to take advantage of alternative forms of energy atop the living quarters at 1600 pennsylvania avenue.
A generation from now this solar heater can either be a curiosity a museum piece an example of a road not taken or.
Two smaller solar thermal systems were also installed to heat water.
In 2003 solar photovoltaic panels were installed at the white house.
In 2013 president barack obama had a set of solar panels installed on the roof of the white house making it the first time solar power would be used for the president s living quarters.
A white house solar panel on arrival at the science museum s conservation lab.
President barack obama s decision in 2010 to install white house solar panels pleased environmentalists.
Today the group of buildings housing the presidency is known as the white house complex.