Former President Jimmy Carter Just Made a Solar Farm to Power Half His City

In 1979, in the throes of the U.S. energy crisis, then President Jimmy Carter addressed the nation as he installed 32 solar panels designed to use the Sun’s energy to heat water. He told the country, “A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.”

Jimmy Carter opens his new solar farm - the farm
will power half his hometown of Plains, Georgia.

Former President Carter’s vision for clean, renewable energy proved to be far ahead of his time.

While his successor, former President Ronald Reagan, had the panels removed, Carter and his family have continued their work toward ensuring that those 32 panels became a part of a much bigger story.

Read the Futuruism story  - “Former President Jimmy Carter Just Made a Solar Farm to Power Half His City.”