They say, however, that one of the most important things you could do -- and I think I asked you about this in Shanghai a couple months ago -- about the White House actually putting, say, solar panels on the White House, or maybe getting a small wind turbine.
One of the promises made by the President in his first term was to put solar on the White House.
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The professor is still hot about Ronald Reagan removing Jimmy Carter's solar panels on the White House roof.
He should come to the White House and talk to the solar energy company executive today who's added jobs.
So in 2010, Stephen Chu, Secretary of Energy, said that the DoE would organize it, but since then, very little has happened and the White House rooftop is still sans solar panels.
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The owner had window film applied, followed by white "sheer-weave" motorized solar shades to filter light but leave the view intact.
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Companies that stand to benefit from tougher curbs on emissions from coal-fired power plants, including utilities that have invested heavily in wind, solar power and nuclear, are pushing the White House not to weaken the rules.
The White House report notes that the Recovery Act is accelerating solar energy innovation by providing funding for greater solar energy deployment, manufacturing and scale-up, and catalyzing needed technological breakthroughs to create novel and more efficient technologies.
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The U.S. Army dedicated its largest solar photovoltaic (PV) system to date at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico today.
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It is the first deployment of solar-powered base stations working together with TV white spaces, a technology partially developed by Microsoft Research, to deliver high-speed Internet access to areas currently lacking even basic electricity.
Dr White thinks there may be an unknown one that varies on roughly the same timescale as the more regular solar cycle, and thus tends to fall into step with it, amplifying the solar variation.
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