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To: monkeyshine

Thar she be. Wind and solar powered ships. Nothing new under the sun.


67 posted on 02/20/2019 12:10:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Except that the radical left will protest the cutting of trees to build the ships as global warming deforestation; the fedgov will continue to ban hemp for rope; and the textile factories to weave and seam the sails are all located in India and Indo-China.

Well maybe AOC and Bernie will approve of the hemp rope... lol

Solar powered steam?


68 posted on 02/20/2019 12:39:59 AM PST by monkeyshine
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To: Jim Robinson

Though you have to admire the beauty and elegance of those Clipper ships. They sailed across the Pacific with ease, sailed migrants from Europe/UK to Australia, sailed from Asia to the Netherlands, and sailed from US coast to cast around Cape Horn in 100 days. Wasn’t until the Panama Canal was built that steam-ships took over because the Clippers couldn’t maneuver easily through the locks in the canal.


69 posted on 02/20/2019 12:44:20 AM PST by monkeyshine
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