Originally Posted by
pcrussell50
Very good questions. Cuda gave me the phone number of the guy behind the Hellkat project and told me to call him and that he would be happy to answer my questions. I have my doubts that he would want to answer the kinds of "trade secret" engineering questions (my education is in engineering), to a complete stranger over the phone, but Cuda says he's game. So after I get a coherent set of questions lined up, engineering questions, not marketing questions, I'll give the bloke a jingle and see what comes of it. I'll probably include some of the questions you have brought up here, too. And I'll report back here what he said. Including if he tells me to f-off when I start asking technical questions, which I wouldn't blame him for.
Of course there is no way a 32 foot cat lugging the weight of batteries went 109 mph on 360hp. We already know they overclocked something to get the power they needed. But what I keep scratching my head over is, why do they keep repeating the same, misleading mantra of 180hp E-Motion outboards, again and again and again? One might be able to see if their marketing person who understands no tech, screwed up once, the first time out. But it keeps happening... Either that or Cuda keeps reposting the same old information. :shrugs:
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In a representative republic, like the USA is, people need to be as informed as possible and as least reliant on shamans who tell them what to believe as possible. Because the elected leadership here essentially responds to what people demand, based on their beliefs. If you are going to demand sacrifices, you should understand why. In the case of global warming, the two primary bits to know, are extraordinarily easy to know and understand. Nobody debates them on either side of the issue, because they are level one facts:
1) how much of our atmosphere is CO2? (42 one thousandths of one percent or our atmosphere is CO2)
2) what is the greenhouse effect? (a "blanket" that traps heat)
Once you know those two things, which are a few seconds of google searching, (which I learned in Australia in 7th grade, and I think American kids do too, somewhere around the same grade level), you can form you own thoughts. That way, when you look to your shamans for advice, at least you aren't going in empty.
-Peter
