4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by netsharc on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:45AM (#44518776)

Man, Paul Krugman (here's a trigger for people who know they know better than him to respond that he's a hack!) was writing about the US giving up lead of solar tech to China back during the G. W. Bush admin... (which makes me feel old as hell)

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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by mrspuratic on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:00AM (#44519257)

In 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar (thermal) panels on the White House roof as part of his fairly progressive environmental and fuel efficiency policies.

Now I feel old :/

And also angry that it's been 40 years and electricity generation is still >50% fossil fuels, never mind world energy use overall.

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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by tstrimple on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:23PM (#44524569)

And Reagan tore them down. If you want to look at why we as a country suck at green energy, you don't have to look further than the Republican party behavior over the decades. The party explicitly responsible for why we can't have any number of Good Things.

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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by mrspuratic on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:30PM (#44526418)

Yes, but maybe not "tore" since they got reused elsewhere. Solar was (quietly) reinstated by GW, but not on the Whitehouse itself until Obama, I think. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_13562...

I don't get the two party system where there's such acrimony involved in trashing and undoing anything accomplished by the opposition .

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