Solar-Thermal Panel by InterTechnology/Solar Corporation, 1979, installed on the roof of the White House by President Jimmy Carter. This is a flat plate solar collector, which uses the sun's energy to ...

Nearly 40 years after President Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the White House's roof, he watched nearly 4,000 of them go up in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in 2017. The panels were ...

U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaking in front of Solar Panels placed on West Wing Roof of White ... [+] House, announcing his solar energy policy, Washington, DC, USA, Warren K. Leffler ...

Jimmy Carter’s one term in the White House ... including famously installing solar panels at the White House. “He was a genuine environmentalist,” said Kai Bird, the author of a biography ...

Jimmy Carter was the first president to install White House solar panels, then Ronald Reagan removed them. Here's what happened.

In reflecting on Jimmy Carter’s death ... Alas, they did not, so Carter’s White House solar panels today are also a symbol; not so much of a road not taken but of a road not taken fast ...

In fact, if you tried to design Jimmy Carter’s polar opposite ... Along with putting solar panels on the roof of the White House, he said Carter protected more than 80 million acres of ...

Warren K. Leffler/U.S. News & World Report via Library of Congress President Jimmy Carter speaks in front of the solar panels installed on the roof of the West Wing of the White House as he ...

Stuart Eizenstat, former adviser to the late President Jimmy Carter, offered in his ... from installing solar panels on the roof of the White House to negotiating a major nuclear arms treaty ...

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. Amid an energy crisis, Carter hoped to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil. President Ronald Reagan ...