It appears as if Michael Lorrey <mike@datamann.com> wrote:
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|> passenger and cargo submarines that go fast and save fuel because they are
|> under the surface turbulence.
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|Sorry, the excessive surface area of subs versus ships precludes fuel
|savings. Surface ships will always go faster for a given amount of fuel.
I understand there exists an effect possible for submarines, one which creates
a gaseous volume around the submarine, and insulates the submarine surface
from water with a thin layer of a gas (air? water vapour?), thus allowing for
much higher speeds when submerged - even rivalling surface ship speeds. Since
this miltech apparently belongs to the cutting edge, I have found very few
refs to it in the on- and offline literature.
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