Current Events > Former US President Jimmy Carter makes Solar Farm that powers half his city.

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Though it has been over thirty years since former United States president Jimmy Carter was in office, he is still paving the way for a brighter future.

In February, Carter leased out 10 acres of his homeland in Plains, Georgia to be used as a solar farm for the city.

According to SolAmerica, the renewable energy company responsible for the construction of the farm, the panels will generate over 55 million kilowatt hours of clean energy over the course of the next 25 years.

This energy will supply about 50% of the town’s power – which is roughly the equivalent of burning 3,600 tons of coal per year.

“Distributed, clean energy generation is critical to meeting growing energy needs around the world while fighting the effects of climate change,” said Carter in a statement. “I am encouraged by the tremendous progress that solar and other clean energy solutions have made in recent years and expect those trends to continue.”

Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/jimmy-carter-just-made-solar-farm-power-half-city/



It's crazy that so many conservatives talk about the bible and religious belief all the time, but Jimmy Carter is actually one of the most passionately Christian people in terms of values and actions in the past century and they by in large hate him.
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Post-president Carter is great.
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Antifar posted...

Post-president Carter is great.

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This is kinda cool, but don't think that he gets no benefits from it. I'm sure he gets good money each month for the lease on land he probably didn't use.
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Carter is my fav politician
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DelianSK posted...

This is kinda cool, but don't think that he gets no benefits from it. I'm sure he gets good money each month for the lease on land he probably didn't use.

For sure but I can garantee you two things.

1. He didn't take the deal for the money.
2. If he was after money he could have gotten more from other projects.

Carter is one of the precious few politician who actually legitimately cares about his fellow man. I've seen him in his spare time helping to rebuild destroyed houses with no cameras around.

It's actually kinda sad that he was so incompotent as a leader. Imagine his ethics and morals in the body of a man who actually knew what he was doing
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Jimmy Carter was a spineless president.

But he's still a really good man.
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Yes
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Theory doesn't always equal the result you're expecting. Let's see if this field will produce the energy it claims it will before we all go praising it as the end all be all.
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Carter was an awful president, but he at least stuck to his beliefs and actually does volunteer work because he believes in what he's doing and not just for publicity.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

DelianSK posted...

This is kinda cool, but don't think that he gets no benefits from it. I'm sure he gets good money each month for the lease on land he probably didn't use.

For sure but I can garantee you two things.

1. He didn't take the deal for the money.
2. If he was after money he could have gotten more from other projects.

Carter is one of the precious few politician who actually legitimately cares about his fellow man. I've seen him in his spare time helping to rebuild destroyed houses with no cameras around.

It's actually kinda sad that he was so incompotent as a leader. Imagine his ethics and morals in the body of a man who actually knew what he was doing

yep.

Carter's worst problem is that he was just too honest and ethical to be president.
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DelianSK posted...

This is kinda cool, but don't think that he gets no benefits from it. I'm sure he gets good money each month for the lease on land he probably didn't use.

So?
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Carter is one of the few people in the modern world that I would consider a saint.
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He was too good of a person to be President
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He's the most awesome former president ever. Too bad he was a below average president.
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Thought he was dead
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Too bad he was a pretty shitty president.
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Carter wasn't a sadist. He was from Georgia.
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Carter's post-presidential work is beyond reproach. The humanitarian role suits him much better than the presidency did, as we far too weak of a figure during a time (the Cold War) when the U.S. needed someone willing to show global strength.
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Irony posted...

Thought he was dead

No he's been pretty active for years
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