{"id":13770,"date":"2011-06-29T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rapportoconfidenziale.org\/?p=13770"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:36:02","slug":"christina-hemauer-roman-keller-a-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rapportoconfidenziale.org\/?p=13770","title":{"rendered":"Christina Hemauer, Roman Keller | A Road Not Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Road Not Taken
\nThe Story of the Jimmy Carter White House Solar Installation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You may not remember this but in 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House West Wing.
\nThe panels, which were used to heat water for the staff eating area, were a symbol of a new solar strategy that Carter had said was going to \u201cmove our Nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available, energy supplies.\u201d
\nBut in 1986, President Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels while the White House roof was being repaired. They were never reinstalled.
\nIn 1991, the panels were retrieved from government storage and brought to the environmentally-minded Unity College about an hour southeast of Bangor, Maine. There, with help of Academy Award winning actress Glenn Close, the panels were refurbished and used to heat water in the cafeteria up until 2005. They are still there, although they no longer function.
\nSwiss directors Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller follow the route the panels took, using them as a backdrop to explore American oil dependency and the lack of political will to pursue alternative energy sources.
\nIn the movie \u00abA Road Not Taken\u00bb, the filmmakers took two solar panels from Unity, placed them in the back of two students\u2019 1990 Dodge Ram pick-up truck (which had been retrofitted to run on vegetable oil) and delivered one of them to the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum in Atlanta and the other to the National Museum of American History in Washington.
\nIn 1979, Carter warned, \u201ca 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 \u2013 harnessing the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.\u201d
\nIt turns out Carter\u2019s warning was at least partially correct: two of his solar panels are museum pieces now.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>DVD\/BOOK AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE<\/a>
\nUPC: 6 34479 99963 5
\nISBN: 978-3-033-02868-5
\nGenre: Documentary
\nDVD Region Code: No Zone
\nRunning Time:\t66 min.
\nRating: no rating
\nPackage Type:\tHardcover book in slim DVD case size
\n(192 x 135 x 10 mm, 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.4 \u201c), cellophane wrapped
\nPages: 64
\nNumber of discs: 1 DVD-5
\nDirectors:\tChristina Hemauer | Roman Keller
\nOriginal Language: English
\nClosed Captioned: yes
\nSubtitles: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and English
\nAspect Ratio: 16:9
\nAudio Format: Dolby stereo
\nBonus: 24 min.
\n Sito ufficiale<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n