For those who wondered what dracones are, here's some info.
Basically, a dracone barge is "a large flexible watertight tube intended to carry a liquid cargo while towed mostly-submerged behind a ship."
The idea seems to have come from Frank Herbert, one of my favourite authors. It probably came from his novel, The Dragon in the Sea
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Here's how a dracone barge look like:
Basically, a dracone barge is "a large flexible watertight tube intended to carry a liquid cargo while towed mostly-submerged behind a ship."
The idea seems to have come from Frank Herbert, one of my favourite authors. It probably came from his novel, The Dragon in the Sea
.Here's how a dracone barge look like:
Hi, can we use and attribute your image here:http://teck78.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-are-dracones.html
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Hi, you can find the image on the Internet Archive.
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Hi Teck, thanks for the reply. Appreciated.
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