• Technus@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    As a product reveal, this is nothing short of blatant fraud. I guarantee there was nothing inside that shell but gas tanks and thrusters.

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      2 days ago

      Musk has done this before. His solar roof tiles were made by an LA prop company. I’m sure if he showed a magic blood testing box people would invest billions.

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        2 days ago

        The solar roof tiles were a real working product, they were just unprofitable even at very high price Tesla were selling them for. I briefly looked into them when I got solar panels installed at my previous home and it was about 50% more expensive thab replacing my roof and and getting traditional solar panels installed combined.

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          2 days ago

          They never happened. Putting PV panels on the shady side of a roof was as brilliant as Hyperloop.

          You think they didn’t know how much they would cost to make?

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            1 day ago

            What do you mean they never happened? I know for a fact there were installs done with them and they were still offering them for installation in some area for years because I priced them out. They just didn’t get many people to go for it because the price was ludicrous and the product was unproven. Also, you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about with solar panels, if your roof is a good candidate for panels there isn’t some “shady side”.