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Solarpunk technology

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Technology for a Solar-Punk future.

Airships and hydroponic farms...

This is not an IT industry news community.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wow, are they finally going to turn this vaporware project into something physical?

Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond Aptera’s control.

Lol no, just trying to drag in another round of investor money.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071222065039/http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/11/aptera-motors-u.html#more

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This grift has been going on since 2006, in which the company promising production since 2009.

Just another 20 million bro...

What is incredible is the stans who believed for 17 years.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right? I remember seeing this thing in a Popular Science magazine when I was a teenager.

This thing's so old it was featured in the 2009 Star Trek movie: https://www.imcdb.org/v302430.html