The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon as part of a Biden administration plan to promote energy conservation and clean energy

The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration’s plan to promote clean energy and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”

The Pentagon is one of 31 government sites that are receiving $104 million in Energy Department grants that are expected to double the amount of carbon-free electricity at federal facilities and create 27 megawatts of clean-energy capacity while leveraging more than $361 million in private investment, the Energy Department said.

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The solar panels are among several improvements set for the Pentagon, which also will install a heat pump system and solar thermal panels to reduce reliance on natural gas and fuel oil combustion systems

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 months ago

    This is the true consequence of half measures. They take up the space where a full measure could have been made, and steal the impetus a full measure requires.

    Social security was a full measure. It covered all Americans. It did the entire job it set out to do.

    It is an example of a full measure.

    The postal service is a full measure. It doesn’t cover some of the addresses. It cover all of them.

    The American public school system covers all students.

    That is what I mean by a full measure and the equate that to facism is beyond idiotic.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Social security was a full measure. It covered all Americans. It did the entire job it set out to do.

      It is an example of a full measure.

      Voted and supported by both houses in the legislature and signed by the President. Which healthcare law which you consider a “full measure” would pass the House and Senate today to be signed the President?

      The postal service is a full measure. It doesn’t cover some of the addresses. It cover all of them.

      The postal service predates the United States (1775), so I don’t think that support your argument.

      The American public school system covers all students.

      Not historically it didn’t, or are you not aware of Brown v. Board of Education? Even today is arguable it doesn’t because its largely controlled by municipalities with 50 different sets of standards at the State level with many massively underfunding their public school systems, or doing so disproportional.

      That is what I mean by a full measure and the equate that to facism is beyond idiotic.

      Your examples are bad because only 1 of 3 is actually done at the federal level, and even that one doesn’t have any analogous proposed legislation for carbon emissions or universal health care that would pass the House and Senate. So unless you’re planning on embracing fascism to push a version through, you’re divorced from the reality of gaining consensus to pass law today.