We now live in the age of renewable energy, although big oil and their political shills will argue otherwise through their lies. President Jimmy Carter’s lead in renewable energy, especially solar energy, was quashed by the regressive policies of Ronald Reagan, a puppet of the wealthy.
The USS Nautilus, created by Admiral Rickover, BS., M.S., who was trained as an electrical engineer, and with Jimmy Carter, B.S., on board as its chief nuclear engineer.
Jimmy Carter, who died in December 2024 at the age of 100, saved the world in the 1970s. Not only fixing the ozone hole, Carter was a nuclear engineer who trained at the US Naval Academy. The Navy’s work in developing the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, meant that Admiral Rickover and Jimmy Carter, who was the head nuclear engineer on board, had access to the latest in top-secret nuclear energy technology. When Canada’s Chalk River nuclear research facility experienced a power surge that damaged its reactor, the U.S. sent Carter and his team to fix it. He was one of a few people in the world with the knowledge and skills to carry-out the mission. Fuel rods at the research reactor experienced a partial meltdown after the power surge. It ruptured the reactor and flooded the facility’s basement with radioactive water, rendering the reactor core unusable. Besides many of his accomplishments as President, including the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, he also confronted stagflation inherited from Nixon/Ford by appointing Paul Volcker as Fed Chair who was kept on by Reagan and who would end the financial crisis. He signed into law bills that established the United States Department of Energy and the United States Department of Education, and he saved the hostages in Iran (although a treasonous Ronald Reagan took credit for this).
However, his criticism of Israel and its settlements on Palestinian land likely cost him his reelection. Carter’s calling out Israel as an apartheid state riled many Zionist Jews and those who are paid-off by AIPAC. Zionist controls of the media are present too, thus amplifying criticism of people such as Carter who dare to question Israel. The Zionist Jews are powerful and can destroy progressive candidates. They were a factor in eliminating Carter.
Carter was a visonary leader who promoted renewable energy and conservation, including:
- National Energy Plan: Carter’s plan included new laws and regulations to promote energy efficiency and conservation, and to develop alternative energy technologies.
- Solar panels on the White House: In 1979, Carter installed 32 solar thermal panels on the White House.
- National Energy Act: In 1978, Carter introduced the National Energy Act, which set goals to reduce the country’s reliance on oil and increase the use of renewable resources.
- Solar bank: Carter proposed spending $100 million in 1980 to create a solar bank, and asked for additional funds to support solar research and projects.
- Tax credits: Carter offered $1 billion in tax credits to homeowners who installed solar panels or wind-energy systems.
- Sun Day: Carter declared May 3, 1978 to be Sun Day, and gave a speech at a solar-research facility in Golden, Colorado.
- Department of Energy: Carter signed legislation in 1977 to create the U.S. Department of Energy
Solar cells had been invented in the USA, and in the 1970s, the USA was the leader in the technology. Carter understood, use solar cells to power things, importantly, to power batteries, and you’ve got an energy revolution. A renewable energy revolution.
Let’s look at how important solar is, why Carter was its champion, and how China now leads in this technology. The images here are taken from: “Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption | Gerard Reid | TEDxBerlinSalon.” Gerard Reid gives an excellent presentation, worth your time to watch it.
First, solar has quickly gone to market and now makes as much energy as does nuclear.
Second, solar is efficient and therefore inexpensive.
Lithium-ion batteries, also invented in the USA, provide storage for the solar energy so it can be used when the sun stops shining. The green area is where the batteries come into play.
China now leads the USA in financing renewable energy. Unfortuantely, the USA didn’t follow Carter’s lead, but the Chinese did.
China leads in all other renewable energy technologies.
China has overtaken the USA in developing new renewable energy technologies.
For the last 100 years the USA has lead the various technology revolutions. However we passed the lead to China when we consider the new era of renewable energies.
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