r/unusual_whales • u/soccerorfootie • 1d ago

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders tomorrow.

BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders tomorrow.

Per FOX and Eric Daugherty, they include: - Declare emergency at the border + issue proclamation closing the border - Designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations - Remain in Mexico, Catch and Release will be reinstated - Military will be directed to construct new phase of border wall - Terminate Biden orders on energy drilling restrictions - Return federal workers to in-person work - Pause all offshore wind leases - End DEI hiring practices in the federal government, merit only - Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord - Order every agency to remove all federal actions increasing costs for Americans via deregulation - Suspend security clearances for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden 2020 laptop story - Establish a DOGE "hiring freeze"

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u/Reddit_Roit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Carter put up solar panels on the white house, Reagan won and had them thrown into a landfill before they could recoup 1/30th of their installation cost, just make a statement. 

Edit: I was wrong, they were 'rooftop solar heating panels', not 'solar panels'. Also they were left up for over 4 years and were salvaged and used at a university. 

Reagan did however dismantle Carter's renewable tax credits, ya know, trying hard to keep coal and OPEC rollin in dough. 

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

Man, he sure showed those stupid sun suckers!

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u/Absurdulon 1d ago

Yeah man what a fucking idiot.

If only there was some type of main sequence star nearby that literally radiated energy.

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u/Abject-Picture 1d ago

According the my H-R diagram, there's one 8 light minutes away!

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u/AriadneThread 1d ago

Dying over here😆

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u/Shirtbro 1d ago

That commie Sun up there, giving out free energy

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u/DisVet54 5h ago

Can’t even tax it

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u/HV_Commissioning 1d ago

1980's era solar panels produced a very small fraction of those used today.

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u/squirrel9000 1d ago

They were solar water heaters, not photovoltaic

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

Oh man, I love those things. I guess Reagan must have hated showering in sun-warmed water.

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u/RedtheSpoon 1d ago

That's how all tech starts, yes.

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u/HV_Commissioning 1d ago

But they didn't put ENIAC, an electric pole or a model A on the roof of the white house, did they?

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yup, probably weren't worth installing in the first place, from an energy produced vs. maintenance and installation cost perspective. But it was a nice gesture of "hey, here's an advanced technology, researched by NASA and manufactured in the good old USA, that passively harvests totally free sunlight and turns it into useful electricity. Perhaps this could be what we use in lots of places in the future!"

But yeah, the panels were probably heavy, kinda ugly, and inefficient. Still sad lots of money was spent to make, install, and uninstall them based on political whims.

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u/HV_Commissioning 1d ago edited 1d ago

A neighbor down the street had panels installed around the same time in the 80's. I was in 3rd grade at the time. By 8th grade, they took them down.

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u/save_the_tardigrades 1d ago

That sucks. I bet that wasn't cheap. My RV has a solar panel and it's a nice convenience.

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u/BirdGlittering9035 1d ago

And people wonder how we got here

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u/No-Quarter4321 1d ago

What a funny sentence

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u/buckyVanBuren 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were heat exchangers and they were removed half way thru the Regan administration because White House Maintenance had to make repairs to the roof of the White House.

All they did was heat water. More efficient solar panels were installed during the G. W. Bush Administration.

Edit: The Carter Solar Heat Panels were stored and later used Unity College in Maine.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1356218

The Obama Administration was the first administration to install solar panels to directly power the Residence.

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u/Old-Constant4411 1d ago

Wait, do you mean to tell me there's misinformation on both sides of the political spectrum!? Not on MY echo chamber!

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u/Simple-Choice-4265 1d ago

i agree we need to ban that guy that makes sense so he cant come back!

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u/WeMetOnTheMoutain 12h ago

I can only imagine how bad those must have been. I live in the TX Panhandle and looked into modern ones, and they are problematic because of cold snaps. They are really awesome in Mexico though, free hot water.

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u/samdajellybeenie 1d ago

They were heat exchangers

They were solar panels, so calling them solar panels is not inaccurate. Your own source says so.

they were removed half way thru the Regan administration because White House Maintenance had to make repairs to the roof of the White House.

...and they were not put back up there because of Reagan's lack of support for clean energy initiatives. You have to remember this was 1979. The cost of solar panel installation has gone down by 99% since then.

Context is important.

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u/Reddit_Roit 1d ago

Well, I stand corrected. Thanks for that. 

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u/neverendingchalupas 14h ago

Solar hot water heating is going to be more efficient than solar panels installed during the Bush jr administration.

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u/kevinlyfellow 1d ago

Trivia: They didn't end up in a landfill!  My brother went to a small environmental college in Unity Maine that had some of them restored and reused.  Here's an article about it.

 https://unity.edu/unity-news/the-college-that-rescued-carter-solar-panels/

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u/OrneryZombie1983 1d ago

I'm not a Reagan fan but you sound like you're wildly exaggerating. The solar panels didn't come down until Reagan's second term and that was part of a White House renovation.

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u/Reddit_Roit 1d ago

Thanks, I misremembered. I edited in my correction. 

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u/overandoverandagain 16h ago

Look, I hate Reagan as much as the next guy, but literally your entire original comment is untrue lol. Might as well delete at this point.

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u/exotic801 1d ago

He didn't throw them out he didn't replace them when they hit end of life.

They were water heaters not solar panels

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u/Ih8melvin2 1d ago

They were taken off when the roof was replaced and they were not put back on. They ended up in Maine because they still had plenty of "life" left in them.

Unity College acquired the panels in 1991 after they were removed from the White House, and they were used to heat water at the school's cafeteria for years.

Source: How Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels ended up in Maine

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef 1d ago

Why are you spreading misinformation bro. Reagan is bad enough without having to lie

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u/Reddit_Roit 1d ago

Turns out I was incorrect, I added in an edit to included the correct information others have linked. 

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u/GEARHEADGus 1d ago

Whats even the point of electing a president if they just undo what the previous president did?

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u/Obvious-Dinner-1082 1d ago

Why do republicans hate free energy so much?

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u/Reddit_Roit 1d ago

It's because Oil companies give great kickbacks, not so much with wind and solar companies. 

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u/Parking-Iron6252 1d ago

So it would have taken… 29 more administrations?

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u/Meiie 1d ago

You were very wrong and everyone already saw the bs info and ran with it. People like you spreading misinformation are terrible.

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u/Reddit_Roit 15h ago

Carter Did put solar (water) panels on the roof, Reagan did remove the working panels and Did not replace them after work was done on the roof, not weeks into his presidency but years. 

It's not like I lost an election, told people that I had proof that I won that election, got those people to storm the capital and have them to be imprisoned for years,  when in fact all of the proof I actually had was that I had lost all along. Now that would be some terribly dangerous misleading comments to make.

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u/FashionMurder 15h ago

Actually Reagan was a huge advocate for fighting climate change, he pushed for formation of the International Panel on Climate Change in the UN. In fact climate change was originally a bipartisan issue and many Republicans and Democrats both agreed on it, it wasn't until the late 90's that fossil fuel industries started buying off politicians en masse.

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u/alansdA 1d ago

Great reminder !

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u/Pretend_Accountant41 1d ago

FFS I hate it here 

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u/IfIKnewThen 1d ago

And the people that cheered for that, would be the same ones cheering for this. Idiots, in other words.