The technology works by reducing frictional resistance between the vessel hull and seawater using air bubbles along the bottom of the ship.

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If Lord had been given to large interpretations, he might have seen in the one ship a symbol of the urgent force of human striving and, in the other, the immovable resistance of sheer stupidity.

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable

We put this proposal in our budget, we keep on getting resistance, but we are going to keep on pushing to end tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and give those tax breaks to companies that create jobs right here in the United States of America. (Applause.) It's the right thing to do.

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