We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors

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Tesla Is Hiding Its “Solar Test House” With Even More Tents To Prevent “Prying Eyes”

Meanwhile, it has now been more than three years since October 2016, when Musk first “revealed” the tiles in an event that many skeptics say was purely for show and to move Tesla’s bailout merger of SolarCity along. A solar panel expert recently debunked Tesla’s 2016 presentation in a podcast and explained why he used it as the basis for forming his skeptical opinion on the company.
 
Musk has yet to disclose how many people have paid $100 to pre-order the Solarglass Roof, despite touting the company’s pre-order numbers for its Cybertruck. Is it possible that both products still don’t exist, we wonder?

Related: Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Glencore did not immediately respond for comment.

17 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors”

    1. Conspiracy theorist on scene (jokesters and wags) blamed Brexit and BoJo.
      Broaxit, Brenter, Labour car crash/manifesto, assault with battery…etc.

    2. burlington?
      that place is the uppity refuge of steeltown’s elitists, seeing as there is NOWHERE on the escarpment and certainly NONE below with the ‘atmosphere’ burbank burlington provides.
      (steel town provides its own ‘atmosphere’ when the coke oven are going full blast)

      when someone uploads the software to hack a tesla, Ive got a shopping list of addresses aka targets in burbank burlington.

  2. It becomes clearer with each passing year that the only quarrel the global elites ever had with Leopold II, King of the Belgians, is that the Congo Free State (now the DRC) was making a fortune for someone who wasn’t them.

    Leopold was able to use his profits from the Congo Free State (in his day, from rubber harvesting) to pay for public works in Belgium out of his own pocket, without using his people’s future tax payments as a pledge for loans from bankers in London and Paris.

    Leopold was rewarded for his generosity by having his property expropriated by his own government. Needless to say, the “Belgian Congo” quickly became a white elephant, an expensive burden that Belgium finally cut loose in 1960. The rest is bloody history.

    Somewhere in the bosom of Abraham, the good king of the Belgians is having the last laugh.

      1. To this day nobody has the slightest idea how many people lived in the Congo in Leopold’s day, never mind how many supposedly died as a result of Leopold’s attempt to develop the Congo Free State. The numbers quoted by the doorstop you reference are mostly invented by Leopold’s enemies.

        And in any case, nobody in the civilized world gave a damn about African children, then or now.

        The world press pretended Leopold was a monster, wildly blowing out of proportion the actions of a few overzealous African employees of Leopold’s agents, because their publishers’ creditors wanted the Congo for themselves, and their collaborators in Brussels made quite sure they got it. Simple as that.

        Those creditors went on to bankroll Soviet communism and national socialism. Their agents in Russia and Germany committed real atrocities whose occurrence nobody still honestly doubts. The people who financed Hitler and Stalin never answered in any meaningful way for their part in real mass murder.

        Leopold’s only crime was getting too big for his britches and getting too rich for his betters’ liking.

  3. I’ve had a pretty good run with Dell computers. At least they had good enough taste to distance themselves immediately from the child labor issue regardless of culpability. Apparently the others wouldn’t deign to.

  4. Don’t understand why this forum is so upset with electric vehicles, solar panels, etc. As long as there are no subsidies are involved at any stage, then let competition sort it out. Attack the preferential treatments not the product.

    1. It is the forcing of useless, expensive electric products that will never ever produce anything but debt that people are upset with. How stupid does one have to be to not understand that without fossil fuels none of these toys can even be produced.

    2. Curmudgeon …. Unfortunately subsidies are always involved in my experience. Subsidies are a feature not a bug of the bleeding edge of technology, schemo-dreamo renewable energy promotions.
      But I agree totally, if folks want electric whatever then they should be free to waste their money …. just not be sucking on the taxpayers tit to pay for their nitwit toys.

  5. I have a hard time believing that an engineer or architect would cover a house designed for solar roof tiles with a tent!!
    Isn’t it the intensity of the sun that provides the energy?? I may be wrong, but I see Elon Musk as another Malcolm Bricklin or Dan DeLorean. And please don’t misinterpret by words. Both Mr. DeLorean and Mr. Bricklin were very innovative entrepreneurs. Jay Leno’s DMC copy of the car used in the movie ”Back to the Future” is evaluated at over $700,000 US, and a Bricklin recently sold at auction in Pebble Beach, California for a record $46 million..
    I do however believe that if and when EVs become a practical mode of travel, they’ll display the Ford oval or the GM bowtie. As for solar roofing, I would guess that the Chinese will corner that market soon.

    1. PD … note they say “canopy” which likely means the roof can be opened when needed. But who knows with Enron Musk and his crazy projects. This entire exercise has more to do with the Solar City lawsuits than anything IMO. Tesla’s solar panels are losing money at a record clip & the solar roof is nothing more than a dream 3 years after Muck’s big promote and subsequent purchase of Solar City by Tesla to avoid a Solar City bankruptcy.

  6. Toronto Board of Education came out with a report that small children came home terrified and crying after being subjected to “Greta’s” speech in their classrooms. Well, at least now that teachers are going on strike for more money, they won’t be abused by the climate Nazis. Although when they go on strike the kiddies will have their lessons on white racism, whiny indian history, and transgender studies put on hold.

  7. I don’t understand the Glencore connection. All their operations in Katanga are open pits so there wouldn’t have been any “tunnel collapses” – something to do with the lack of tunnels. Also pre-teens can’t reach the pedals on a haul truck and aren’t really up on how to operate a rock drill or load explosive slurry, so they’re not the most attractive candidates for employment.

    There definitely is child labour in Congolese mines, but always at the unlicensed, informal level – and usually run and brutally enforced by local criminal gangs. This looks spurious.

    Ontario John – mine is unfortunately missing some trigonometry and the difference between the subjunctive and conditional moods in French. I can drill him on one but the other always eluded me…

  8. regarding elon the musk:

    he might have a form of ocd.
    Howard Hughes, whose legacy is a longstanding medical research firm had it bad and extremely bad in his later years.

    musk’s eccentric behaviour and evasiveness and general demeanor to me is an indication he has the illness in some form.
    I still think he’s a lying goddamn scheming bastard.

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