Posted on 07/28/2022 9:15:38 AM PDT by texas booster
A guess? Locally sourced material. That's a lot of steel for that ship. Structural shapes, rolled steel plate. Then you have COVID for most of those 3 years...
I don’t think we have those on the Great Lakes.
California rejects desalination plant:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-rejects-plan-desalination-plant-2022-05-13/
Agreed...
It is the actual overall domestic manufacturing capability I would be really interested in rebuilding...
I remember, in 1943, my Mom (a welder working 12-hrs-per-day, 6-days-per-week) bragging when there was an extra $10 in her pay envelope when the construction crew met its monthly quota for ship hulls constructed...
There are no American workers, and no infrastructure, left in this country that could accomplish those kinds of tasks when the chicoms or NKs decide to raise the ante...
right? and it’s primer colored, wtf?
Pretty cool. Like a big giant earth mover or something.
Does it run on electricity?
Yeah, there’s this thing north of us called Canada that has a huge thing to say about the water levels of the great lakes as well, and to get it to California there’s this little series of foothills called the Rocky Mountains that would make it pretty hard to flow there without going up and over as well.
Still, if they offer me a grant for a few million to assess the feasibility of it, well hey, I will gladly submit my proposal for the idea.
Heh. Why not the Columbia river? Let the blue staters fight it out.
The beat in Korea goes on in spite of it all.
One of the drill ships I participated in the building of gave me my introduction to the amazing organization that is Korean ship building.
A team came into the office in Houston, stayed about 4 weeks, left with the design and specifications and built the ship. It was almost like ordering from a check the box menu. We sent two people over to represent us and be there for liaison to fill in gaps along the way then the shakedown, remedies and came home with a drill ship. The biggest problems came with third party supplied items like blow-out preventers.
You had to be there and move fast or risk getting built into some small space of the ship.
There was no covid of course.
I’ve read about the Korean shipyards and the way they crank out container ships like we used to build Liberty ships. Pretty darned impressive. But then the SK’s have a large, modern steel industry capable of feeding those shipyards.
Yes, you are correct. We too once said “why not” instead of “we can’t”.
I say amazing about a lot of things and over use the word. I am not adequate to the superlatives of what was done in manufacturing in WWII. It is so profound to me I have made it one of my studies.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.