Monday 13 of September of 2010 Buenos Aires

The White House will not use solar energy

Barack Obama rejected the supply of a company that offered to him to install in the tile roof of the presidential residence the last technology in solar paddles. 

Barack Obama rejected the supply of a Californian company to use solar paddles in the White House.  

Bill McKibben, environmental activist, traveled until Washington with its group to convince the American president of the importance of reinstating the solar equipment that already put Jimmy Carter in 1979. Although “updated”, clearly.

“Obvious, a solar paddle in the tile roof of the White House will not solve the climatic change, but he would fortify the leadership of Obama in this area and would show the world the necessity to transform the way in which the energy takes place at present”, McKibben commented.

The activist moved until the American capital in a light truck driven by biodiesel in which the solar paddles of Carter traveled.

Hot water

31 years ago Jimmy Carter it presented/displayed to the world the 32 acquired solar paddles. The democratic president sent therefore a message to the Congress: “It is hour to stop concerning petroleum”. The solar energy that they generated warmed up the water of the White House until Ronald Reagan and the repairs of transferred them to the ceiling to the Unity College (Maine) where “they heated” his cafeteria until 2005, date in which they returned to be retired.

For the ecologists, this some thirty panels - of 55 kilos of weight and two meters of length they would jeopardize to the Obama family with the environment of one more a form contudente than the organic orchard of the First Lady. 

“Someday”

Representatives of Sungevity met with members of the Cabinet of Obama. When leaving, everyone kept awake details of the encounter. The American civil servants are debating envelope how to invest the thousands of million dollars well that want to destine to the promotion of the renewable ones in the country. “To design clean technology, to make better, intelligent and greater networks of provision and to create sustainable jobs” they are the first measures that have left brainstorming oval more logical. Sungevity hopes that “someday (more soon than behind schedule)” the White House gives “Yes” the engaged one them during the interview.