The White House finally bet solar panels

Three weeks after the expedition "solar" environmentalist Bill McKibben is crashing the gate of the White House, Barack Obama has decided to swerve to the energy policy of the presidential mansion and has agreed to install new thermal and photovoltaic panels.
The recently announced Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has urged Americans to follow suit and opt for renewable energy. The solar industry has launched the house through the window and the 350.org campaign, which on Sunday summoned the global day of action against climate change, has finally entered the "solar commitment" of the White House.
The panels, which will be installed next spring, mostly have a high symbolic value. In 1979, ahead of time, then-President Jimmy Carter decided to install the first thermal plate in the west wing roof to provide hot water. Two years later, completing the revenge of the "lobby" of fossil fuels, Ronald Reagan decided to withdraw unceremoniously and the White House with solar Panel.

White House with solar Panel

In the sly, President Bush pioneered the use of geothermal energy in their Texas ranch returned to install a small thermal panels to heat the pool water and other units of the presidential mansion. What Obama is now trying to achieve even energy supply to the monthly bill, to be determined and the White House with solar Panel..

It is unknown what might have brought about the sudden change in the White House, beyond the exit of the cabinet chief Rahm Emanuel. The fact is that the issue of McKibben and 350.org, which was loaded with an old panel of Jimmy Carter, had to turn around in September with the mission unfulfilled and the White House with solar Panel.

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"We could have said we had an excellent exchange of ideas and ensure that the Administration has taken seriously our request," McKibben wrote then. "But that would have been lying."
Three weeks later, and after weighing whether or not to recall at this point to Jimmy Carter, the White House announces rectified and solar conversion and the White House with solar Panel.. Is not known how he may have the final decision on Michelle Obama, who masterminded the famous garden in the presidential mansion, which the irrigation system can be activated by next spring, thanks to solar future