{"id":14821,"date":"2003-06-04T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/04\/pykrete\/"},"modified":"2003-06-04T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-04T14:37:00","slug":"pykrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/04\/pykrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Pykrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II the British and Americans were developing plans for the <i>HMS Habbakuk<\/i>, a giant ship made of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Broadway\/1928\/pykrete.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Pykrete<\/a>.  Pykrete is basically ice with wood pulp mixed in, resulting in a much higher strength and resistance to melting than conventional ice.  Check out these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/7\/floatingisland.php\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.combinedops.com\/Pykrete.htm\" target=\"_blank\">articles<\/a> for more historical information and background, including some technical specs.  Initially I was skeptical of the idea, but upon reading the different articles it seems feasible, especially in the economic and military context of the time.  I&rsquo;m surprised that I&rsquo;ve never heard of it mentioned as a construction material for Arctic climates, though, as it seems to be ideal for that application&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/memepool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">memepool<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200383937?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II the British and Americans were developing plans for the HMS Habbakuk, a giant ship made of Pykrete. Pykrete is basically ice with wood pulp mixed in, resulting in a much higher strength and resistance to melting than conventional ice. Check out these two articles for more historical information and background, including &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/04\/pykrete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pykrete&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}