It’s been just over a week since Bill and our intrepid group of Unity College students left Maine to try and bring solar back to the White House. Those of you who have been following the story already know the unsatisfactory ending: despite the signatures of more than 40,000 people and multiple offers from solar companies like Sungevity to install new panels for free, the White House refused to accept Jimmy Carter’s original panel or commit to putting a new array on the roof.
But as the saying goes, sometimes the best part of a trip is the journey, not the destination. And while our time at the White House may have been a downer, this video from Clean Skies TV shows just how much fun the road trip down to Washington was for our team and people we met along the way:
For full disclosure, we want to point out that Clean Skies TV is run by an organization largely funded by the natural gas industry. We don’t detect any bias in this piece — no mention of gas here — and are appreciative of the coverage. And we’ll let the reporter get away with the downer of ending since he definitely had the best line of any report on the panel we’ve seen so far, “You could cook a hot dog with this thing!”