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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Agreed, but with the way gummint tends to hold onto things past their usefulness date, we would probably still have the same ones. I'm pretty sure modern solar panels are much more efficient. So we either install new ones when a more intelligent person is President, or we paint 'em gold and slap 'em on the top and sides of the new ballroom. Easy to convince His Orangeitude they were his idea.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right now, there are none though. And significantly fewer plants too.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plenty of Russian Plants in the Whitehouse.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

and plus the other russian mouthpiece"the left left me abandoned" tulsi gabbard.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

we would probably still have the same ones. I’m pretty sure modern solar panels are much more efficient.

Hardly the point. Even if you blanketed the white house grounds with panels, it's not putting a dent in overall power usage for the area.

It is, however, a very visible signal, "we value renewables, science, and intelligence" that shows progress away from the old world, and that scares a lot of old white people.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were water heating panels, not pv.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

That's what I vaguely remembered but it's been a few regimes and I'm old. As would they be if still in place.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

when a more intelligent person is President,

I envy your stable mental state