The Russians have nuclear-powered icebreakers. I saw numbers of them in Finland and St. Petersburg.
We have the expertise and potential capability.
Why is the same regime that tells us all the ice will melt due to climate change building new icebreakers? (Companion question to why did Bathhouse Barry buy oceanfront property.)
Why would we need ice breakers when there is no ice because of global warming.... Oh wait. Maybe it will be electric.
meanwhile, The Russians have nuclear powered ice breakers ro keep their shipping lanes clear. Chomo Joe wouldnt make a new ice breaker unless turd world invaders were coming in from the Yukon.
Bethlehem Steel in Buffalo, NY used to be a steel processing company capable of high levels of production and distribution. at one point, they were the 4th largest steel mill in the world. Had over 20K workers. They were on the stock exchange.
Three main factors led to the demise of Bethlehem Steel:
#1. A poorly managed pension fund.
#2. Union rules that made modernization very difficult.
#3. Competition from cheap foreign steel companies.
Plenty of young men looking for honest sweat labor.
Would likely be along the way if the Rats hadn’t stole the 2020 POTUS election.
#ing Rats
From Ross Perot’s warning forward, the US under its enlightened leadership has outsourced those strengths it requires to actually be strong. Posturing and PR are no substitute for middle-class, blue collar productivity and individual human ingenuity. In the last decades our political class has thought they could off-shore and then simply order prosperity like an Amazon doorstep delivery. What a surprise. Supply chains break. And politically-charged sanctions break them further. The solutions are obvious. But the opposition to them great, “progressive” and ideological.
3D printer should work
What about Anacott Steel? Blue horseshoe loved that one.
bkmk steel
“an old industrial challenge: cutting and shaping thick, hardened steel”
This is the subject of the post.
Cutting and shaping thick, hardened
steel. Don’t matter who produces
it. This is about craftsmanship
and knowledge handed down tempered
with tenacity.
Ships are massive. Curved metal
at these thicknesses is more or
less based on flatness of
surface over distance. It’s the
angles of the plate edges that
are welded together that form
the curve. These pieces are
welded together at the seams
(Which have generous bevels cut
for best weld penrtration).
These weld seams can at times be
as thick as the two plates you’re
trying to weld together, and
twice as wide as the metal
thickness.
But I thought there’d be no more ice
I read somewhere that the Titantic was an ice breaker by design, that the iceberg should not have hurt it?
I don’t understand why we need icebreakers. Isn’t the ice going away?
To consolidate their power the leftists decided to deindustrialize America in order to crush the middle class and now we are reaping the whirlwind.
“…as designers, engineers and welders grapple with something the U.S. hasn’t done in decades: reliably shape hardened steel …”
C’mon! The graveyards are full of people who know how to do this shit…oh…wait…
Sad commentary.
We no longer even have the ability and expertise to build a WWII class battleship
I thought climate change would make icebreakers unnecessary.