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dylan604 on March 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. seeks to revive idled shipyards with help of ...

> Anyone can order a few tons of rebar, but ask for 10,000 tons of plate steel suitable for ships and you will be laughed at.

Sounds like yet another reason supporting concrete ships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship

whynotmaybe on March 4, 2024 [–]

Well there's the annual concrete canoe competition but we'll need a lot of canoe to replace a ship.

https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...

dylan604 on March 4, 2024 | [–]

or one might say, "we're going to need a bigger boat"

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