electric catamaran boat to set world record

[Instigator]

One of the new miracle motors.

[skialot2]

One of the new miracle motors.

I had a 235 Evinrude break off the transom of my Baja back in the late 80's. Both clamps broke the ears off with the bolts in them. It was the second time I saw that happen.

[CUDA]

One of the new miracle motors.

The L6 came out in 2005... new miracle motor

Wrong. Again, L 6 is a 2.6 L supercharged old motor, next?

And why did you Post that HERE?

Is there anything new on those mighty Crossflows?



The new 350 and 400hp motors are V10s 5.7L

[powerabout]

I would like to know how much our gvmt gave nascar to get them to go hybrid.

Same for ethanol fuel.

I would wager that the corn farmer lobbying group is one of the largest, most funded.

wait till they use soy.
That group spend more than cigarette companies ever did telling you its good for you.

[Instigator]

I had a XP 2.6 on a 19’ cuddy that spent many weekends on Lake Erie, and crossed it and never had an issue.

I had a 235 Evinrude break off the transom of my Baja back in the late 80's. Both clamps broke the ears off with the bolts in them. It was the second time I saw that happen.

[powerabout]

Never saw one break if they had the reinforements installed.
If offshore racing i would use grade 8 steel zinc plated.
(unless you got omc v8 bolts)

[skialot2]

Never saw one break if they had the reinforements installed.
If offshore racing i would use grade 8 steel zinc plated.
(unless you got omc v8 bolts)

Definitely had the reinforcements installed. Bolts, clamp ears and reinforcements were still tightly bolted to the +2 bracket.

[Shaun K]

I would like to know how much our gvmt gave nascar to get them to go hybrid.

Same for ethanol fuel.

I would wager that the corn farmer lobbying group is one of the largest, most funded.

[pcrussell50]

We need an

Exorcism now

"

Peter sez:
Now, to your numbers... You are using units that don't make sense. kw are units of power, not of storage capacity, but you seem to be using them interchangeably. If you mean storage, you need to add a time unit. 84KWh would express it in terms of storage. This makes me think that you don't really understand what you are saying and are paraphrasing some article you read."

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Eh… wut?
Is there a mistake in what I said? Are KW not units of power? Are KWh not units of storage capacity?

Exorcism? Don’t take this the wrong way mate, but You speak in bizarre code words when you’re not cutting and pasting fanciful articles speaking of technology you don’t understand.

***

OHBTW… Do you srsly think the Chinese have full blown, actual solid state batteries running around in consumer-grade automobiles, while the finest minds in the Western World hasn’t even got a lab test car running on legitimate solid state storage?

-Peter

[pcrussell50]

To David's point, where there is a will (and some wicked smart engineers), there is a way. A problem is only a problem…

Some problems are extraordinarily tough. We have understood nuclear fusion for a very long time now. We know that man will not be an advanced space faring race with colonies on the moon or other planets, way in the future without it. We have Nobel laureates all over it. But making it happen with a level of mastery where it can be put to the grid and used is… so far off we can’t even predict when or even if it will happen, even though it must, if Homo sapiens is going to live in prosperity way in the future.

You’re right that there are “wicked smart” people working on workable mobile electricity storage. You might however be very wrong about how hard they have been working on it, and for how long. The instant lithium appeared, the brightest minds in the world were looking for something better. In fact, mobile electricity storage is probably the holiest of holy grails in all of humanity. So many people woke up to mobile electric storage when battery operated cars become the hot political issue. But that was already more than halfway through the already aged life of lithium ion. If you don’t think Sony and Sanyo and Apple and Nokia and Dell and pretty much every consumer and commercial grade electronics company on the planet hasn’t been putting everything they can into lighter safer more powerful mobile storage, since waaay before Tesla came along, I don’t know if there is help for it.

It is a tough tough problem. Nothing has come along that can replace lithium ion for 35 years now. Only hopes, dreams and theories. Meanwhile lithium ion is already stretched dangerously thin. There will be no more revolutionary improvements in it. Only smaller and smaller increments as you eat further and further into safety margins. ETA: Lithium ion polymer was almost good enough to be one of those breakthroughs. It’s used widely in toy aeroplanes, toy cars and toy boats. But it’s too dangerous for transportation of human beings. I did convert my electric skateboard from heavy Tesla cells to lipo. It’s still heavy, but it’s a good deal lighter than it was with human-safe cells. I just figured that since it’s a skateboard, it will be easy to escape from if it catches fire.

It’s nice to be hopeful. But we are best if we temper it with reality too.

-Peter

[CUDA]

https://www.google.com/search?q=chin...of5_bUjXw,st:0

[CUDA]

The problem is you don't understand, chit...

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/1...-ion-batteries

[NICE PAIR]

https://www.google.com/search?q=chin...of5_bUjXw,st:0

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...ish/propaganda

[NICE PAIR]

The problem is you don't understand, chit...

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/1...-ion-batteries

Can you say "MORE" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...ish/propaganda

[Chaz]

2025 = Drill baby drill ... liquid gold under ground.

Liberalism is a mental disorder ... we who think clearly can see that plain as day ..

I'm all for new technology .. I'd love to have a T.I.G. torch without cables that I can put in my back pocket .. walk across the street and weld a bracket on my neighbors trailer for him. The tech is not there ... yet.

The last thing I would want is for some half baked liberal to start a big campaign that would ban welding cables because they emit ion's that cause birds to fly up-side-down, fish to die and old peoples hair to fall out. None of which they can prove ..

There will always be other liberals that are nothing more than polly want a cracker Parets that have nothing better to do than spew that narrative. I have in the past called them by their name for what they are. We know who they are .. Today I choose to just let them be just as stupid as they want.

BTW ... the electric boat .. has been back to a "normal" gas boat for a while now .. I'm sure however .. that it does use a battery ... to start the motors..

Gotz common sense ....