It's a good idea, that blows my mind. How about yours?
It was wrecked near Tromsø, Norway... so, why not make use of the wrecked battleship? Spoils of war, etc
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2021/11/armor-plates-from-wwii-german.htmlhttps://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/pzdzV/her-ligger-tirpitz-70-aar-etter
Swords into plow-shares? Smart idea.
ReplyDeleteA piece of history/infrastructure.
From superstructure to infrastructure?
ReplyDeleteIf those things could talk. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteIm surprised they are using it for road plates,
ReplyDeleteall metal that was manufactured before the atomic bombs were used, is very very valuable for using in medical and scientific instruments that measure radiation, like for MRI machines etc.
Its called "low background "
lead that was produced before WW-II is very valuable.
Ok, lead before WW2 is, but this is steel. I'm not sure that I didn't confuse the two separate sentences as one thought, and that you actually meant them as two distinct and different paragraphs, as they're written that way.
DeleteAnyway, I suspect no one is advertising for old steel plates, as they can go rip them off all the shipwrecks for free, and there are a LOT of old shipwrecks of steel ships.
The simple answer is that the valuable steel from shipwrecks go from the ones that sit under the water BEFORE first atomic tests. Tirpitz was sink in 1944 in shallows, most of it stayed above water. It was scraped by joint Norwegian-German team and what was in good shape was reused.
DeleteSome enterprising Norwegians set up a company to salvage the Tirpitz after she had been sunk in late 1944. Had to wait for the war to end, though.
ReplyDeleteseriously? That's a riot!
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