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  • ninalanyon 5 hours

    Was this created by AI and not proofread or created by a human and not proofread? The paragraph relating to the Musgraves taking over a factory is repeated and it reads rather oddly.

    Anyway, regardless of that nitpick, it was an interesting read.

  • 5555624 3 hours

    ASCE (American Society opf Civil Engineering) has an annual Concrete Canoe Competition. (https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...)

  • jimnotgym 5 hours

    Interestingly concrete yachts are a thing. Ferro-cement is the term, but it is just reinforced concrete. You can buy very large yachts for small amounts of money with yachts made this way in the 70s.

    Insurance can be tricky for no really good reason

    ofalkaed 2 hours

    >Insurance can be tricky for no really good reason

    It is very expensive to prove a ferro hull to be sound, which is a requirement for getting insurance.

    davidjade 2 hours

    Except the steel armature inside can turn to hidden rust and if you do something and crack the ferro hull they can be a total loss. A lot were home built so finding a quality build is another issue.

    There’s a reason insurance won’t touch them.

  • UncleSlacky 4 hours

    Reminds me of "pykrete" which was also a potential construction material for ships (notably aircraft carriers) proposed during WWII:

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

    robotnikman 1 hours

    Notably Project Habakkuk, which if built would have been the largest ship ever created.

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

  • warumdarum 4 hours

    You could do that today for cargodrone boats sintering or epoxy glueing beachsand?

    sandworm101 4 hours

    Or melt the sand and form it into long strips, fibers, then glue the fibers together in some sort of glass-fiber-epoxy type material. Get the patent done quick because that sounds viable imho.

    margalabargala 4 hours

    Glass fiber? Ridiculous, that'll never work.

    cwillu 1 hours

    Imagine if someone tried making a sub from that, and then it delaminated lol