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Here comes the sun: White House to go solar
the Atlanta Journal Constitution (from AP) ^ | 10/5/2010 | DINA CAPPIELLO

Posted on 10/05/2010 10:25:25 AM PDT by NYRepublican72

WASHINGTON — Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama's house.

The most famous residence in America, which has already boosted its green credentials by planting a garden, plans to install solar panels atop the White House's living quarters. The solar panels are to be installed by spring 2011, and will heat water for the first family and supply some electricity.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the plans Tuesday in Washington at a conference of local, state, academic and nonprofit leaders aimed at identifying how the federal government can improve its environmental performance.

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hippies; obama; solar; solarpower
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Ahhh. it's like Jimmy Carter all over again..
1 posted on 10/05/2010 10:25:29 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
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“...already boosted its green credentials by planting a garden,...”

Folks, you just can’t write this stuff to make them any more stupid.


2 posted on 10/05/2010 10:29:28 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I do love how dirty liberal green hippies fail even basic math...

From the article:

Based on available roof space, administration officials expect the photovoltaic system will include between 25 to 75 panels and will convert sunlight into 19,700 kilowatt hours of electricity a year. That would save a typical household $2,300 on its electricity bill, based on commercial rates in Washington. The solar hot water heating system, based on government estimates, could save an additional $1,000 a year.

Kennedy estimates that outfitting Obama's pad with solar would cost about $100,000 if paid out of pocket. But the money would be earned back with savings on the electric bill in the first five years

Only in dirty green hippie fantasy land is $3,300 x 5 equal to $100,000.

3 posted on 10/05/2010 10:30:35 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
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Jimmuh Carter 2.0. Obama just needs a beer-swilling brother and a confession about lusting in his heart.


4 posted on 10/05/2010 10:30:41 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Keep that useless crap off of our Whitehouse.


5 posted on 10/05/2010 10:31:10 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Just in time for winter, the Obozo Admin will have the WH go solar? What a maroon!!!!!


6 posted on 10/05/2010 10:32:47 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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Man, the reporter didn’t even stop to do some basic math with a pencil and some paper.


7 posted on 10/05/2010 10:33:58 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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Methinks that Obozo’s brother would more likely be a spear throwing Kenyan!!!


8 posted on 10/05/2010 10:34:01 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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Idiots. That roof needs to be clear for secret service.


9 posted on 10/05/2010 10:36:25 AM PDT by George from New England (Escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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So the next Republican president in 2012 will just have to rip this white elephant all out...LOL!


10 posted on 10/05/2010 10:36:28 AM PDT by pabianice
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“Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama’s house.”

He can put them on HIS house in Chicago if he wants, but that house in DC belongs to the people.


11 posted on 10/05/2010 10:37:06 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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$100K????? You should be able to supply all the electricity for the WH with a system like that. I can take care of my house for $30K. But I won’t live long enough to pay it back, so I’m not doing it. Even if the government pays for 50% of it, where’s the savings? Someone has to pay for it, one way or another.


12 posted on 10/05/2010 10:37:15 AM PDT by RC2
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I cut the quote so that we didn’t excerpt too much. Basically, that quote’s attributed to the green loon who, by the way was in the Maldives working putting solar panels on their President’s private residence. Not the reporter.

But it goes to show what snakes these GLO-BULL warming salespeople are.


13 posted on 10/05/2010 10:37:34 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
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Barney Frank the banking queen does their math no doubt....:o)


14 posted on 10/05/2010 10:37:49 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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It’s NOT Obama’s house. It belongs to THE PEOPLE. The sooner we evict the current dead beat squatters the better.


15 posted on 10/05/2010 10:37:52 AM PDT by Leg Olam (A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.)
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Desperate to maintain some semblence of relevance, our president resorts to meaningless gestures and vacuous symbolism. He’s a shallow, vacant human being that has barely enough insight to recognize his own inadequacy.


16 posted on 10/05/2010 10:38:25 AM PDT by Spok (Is it RINO season yet?)
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Hmmm. Obozo’s minions fudged the figures by a factor of 6 - surprise surprise.


17 posted on 10/05/2010 10:38:25 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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lusting in his heart

Ah, Barbi Benton. Can't fault Carter on that one.

18 posted on 10/05/2010 10:39:25 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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I put over 50k of panels on my house. Won’t pay for itself before they wear out and need total replacement.


19 posted on 10/05/2010 10:39:35 AM PDT by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: Spok
Desperate to maintain some semblence of relevance, our president resorts to meaningless gestures and vacuous symbolism. He’s a shallow, vacant human being that has barely enough insight to recognize his own inadequacy.

We don't have an election in a month or something? /sarcasm

20 posted on 10/05/2010 10:41:11 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
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