A little over a year ago, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the Council of Environmental Quality announced that they were going to install solar panels and solar water heaters on the roof of the White House in hopes fellow Americans will follow the president's lead and install solar panels on their own homes. Secretary Chu stated that this installation is a "demonstration project showing that American solar technologies are available, reliable and ready for installation in homes throughout the country". However, a year later, the project is still in its preliminary stages.
Obviously, this seemingly lengthy and complicated process is not boosting Americans' willingness to take on solar technologies.
Meanwhile, at a public high school in San Mateo, California, we got our own solar panels installed within a matter of months. Let's all take a moment here and recognize that we're essentially more efficient than top council of the United States. Good job Aragon.
