I’ve noticed several things in the current America’s Cup finals that keep my interest. While others in San Francisco seem completely oblivious to the racing, and it’s hard to drag them out and watch, I’m still excited about watching these points: Overall performance (energy transfer) engineering: ETNZ has the best boat design engineers in the … Continue reading AC34 Finals: Notes of Interest
Several people have suggested I explain the ETNZ crash. Usually it comes up casually. I get all animated and start describing the details of the event and then people say “that’s interesting, others need to hear this”…and I think why didn’t the America’s Cup put someone on the commentary team who actually races catamarans? Just … Continue reading AC34: ETNZ Bows Down…and Survives
This is the third incident, as far as I can tell. The first incident, spying on competitor designs, resulted in a penalty for Oracle. The second incident was when Oracle tried to use the Artemis incident to force competitors to change their design, and was rebuffed. Now Oracle is accused of yet another design-related incident. … Continue reading AC34 Team Oracle Caught Cheating…Again
The Economist in 2011 made a salient point about the future of gasoline vehicles: For Toyota, taking BMW’s diesel engines is a tacit admission that its hybrid strategy does not cut it in Europe. That means a gasoline-hybrid strategy is failing. A diesel-hybrid strategy, however, would have worked. Two years later, today, the Economist admits … Continue reading Diesel = Winning