Labor Secy. Su: When the bridge collapsed Biden was thinking of workers ‘who make this country run’

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is asking Congress to approve funding to help clean up debris and rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge, saying that the collapse was a disaster for the economy. Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the economic impacts of the collapse and how it affects workers around the Port of Baltimore.

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Labor Secy. Su: When the bridge collapsed Biden was thinking of workers ‘who make this country run’

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  1. THIS IS COMPLETE AND TOTAL B.S.! Joe Biden is destroying the working/middle class with his war on oil that's causing EVERYTHNG to go up in price – bec. everything moves by train and truck to get to the stores! Since Joe Biden became president: Food up 33.7% Energy up 32.8%. Shelter up 18.7%. Rent up 22%. Electricity up 27.1%. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

  2. Hundred plus year old infustructers are going to need another hundred trillion in unacatable slush fund bills from lying career politicians in Washington again.

  3. Real news coverage: why did the cargo ship crash into the bridge?
    how will the government inspect other bridges and prevent future tragedies of this type?

  4. An idea: A way to reduce the danger, cost, and time to remove the submerged bridge structure:

    A cubic foot of water weighs about 62 pounds. Let’s assume that submerged pieces of the bridge structure are cut down to 1000 tons or less, or that they are at or below that weight without cutting.

    I suspect that there may be large pieces that are far smaller, but for illustration purpose, let’s assume there is a 2-million-pound piece of steel bride structure that must be removed. For reference, the ship weighs 200 million pounds.

    A 1000-ton object will displace about 32,000 cubic feet of water.

    Fabricate containers. Let’s assume a container is 10 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet in size, or 1000 cubic feet. It would take only 32 of these containers to displace 1000 tons or water (ignoring the weight of the containers, but this a back-of-the-envelope argument).

    If the containers were rigged with lugs (brackets) or attachment features, as well as pressure fittings, they could be floated to the appropriate locations, flooded and sunk to locations underwater. They could be attached to appropriate structure points with or without cabling. They could be re-pressurized with air and would levitate the structure.

    As I see it, that would allow for the structure to be tugged to much deeper water to be sunk, or to shallower water, or shore, where salvage of the steel could be conducted with much more ease and safety while freeing the channel for navigation.

    An effort on the scale of this recovery could produce 32 containers in a few days.

    Better still, there are many such containers already well into construction – they’re called shipping containers. Shipping containers are much larger than 1000 cubic feet. It could take far fewer of them to achieve the buoyancy needed. They would need to be modified for sealing, with the aforementioned rigging and pressurization fittings.

    And, of course, there are surely other submersible engineered objects that could be used to implement this kind of strategy. To be sure, some cutting and crane-lifting is necessary to free the ship, but the risk of a massive collapse could be mitigated by adding prophylactic buoyancy to the structure cantilevered against the ship. And, the structure not related to the ship recovery – that structure underwater and unaffiliated — could be levitated and floated away.

    Faster, cheaper and safer.

    It’s an idea. I don’t know how to, or who to approach with this idea.

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