• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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      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.