Never forget - On June 20, 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 panels designed to harvest

[malaise]

the sun's rays and use them to heat water.

Where would we be today -almost 40 years later if big oil and their tools didn't belittle and sabotage Carter's attempt to change our approach to energy.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carter-white-house-solar-panel-array/?redirect=1
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.

Love you Jimmy Carter

[ProudLib72]

1. I had those on my first house

Four big panels filled with copper tubes. The tubes led to the basement where there was a pump to keep the water inside the tubes circulating. There was a huge (maybe 500 gallon) tank that the tubes passed through. The water in that tank got warmed and then passed into the water heater. Of course, by the time I bought the house, the system hadn't been in use in two decades. I got rid of it.

[Tikki]

2. Our solar panel installment was just completed.

14 panels and because we have a flat roof, they are jauntily tilted toward the sun.

The Tikkis

[brer cat]

3. He was a visionary wrt energy.

I often wonder how much he could have accomplished in a second term.

I love him too, malaise.

[Stuart G]

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