Sentences with phrase «for whale oil»

I think the greater irony that was lost in the article is that oil is what replaced our thirst for whale oil back in Melville's time.

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For example, if you're writing Moby Dick (no kidding), you can include expanded notes about the history of whaling, including maps of routes to now obsolete hunting grounds, period advertisements for whale oil lamps, and other real - life elements that expand the reader's experience.

Jojoba oil is a similar waxy oil with similar composition, making it an excellent substitute for whale oil.

And much of the early demand driving whaling was for whale oil, which was later superseded by petroleum.

Not exact matches

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

For example, petroleum - based kerosene replaced whale oil for lighting in the 19th century, and then electricity took its place in the 20th centuFor example, petroleum - based kerosene replaced whale oil for lighting in the 19th century, and then electricity took its place in the 20th centufor lighting in the 19th century, and then electricity took its place in the 20th century.

The city was one of America's leading whaling ports during 19th century, when whale oil was used for lighting and lubrication.

«The study, titled The Behavioural Response of Humpback whales to Seismic Surveys (BRAHSS), involved an air gun array — as used for oil and gas exploration,» Dr Dunlop said.

The irony is that sperm whales can thank oil for their species's survival.

For roughly 100 years, sperm whales were hunted for the semi-waxy oil found in their heFor roughly 100 years, sperm whales were hunted for the semi-waxy oil found in their hefor the semi-waxy oil found in their head.

In turn, killer whales that feed on seals consume the equivalent of five tons of plankton for each pound of their body weight.12 This phenomenon would explain why Weston Price found seal oil, which he estimated to constitute 200 calories per day of the Inuit diet, to be several times higher in the fat - soluble vitamins than ordinary cod liver oil.30

During the Civil War, the Confederacy used peanut oil as an affordable lubricant for locomotives due to a shortage of whale oil.

It's pretty gross, especially when they're harvesting the whale body for the precious oil.

Do you ever wonder if we are just shifting one problem for the next, the way energy needs were shifted from hunting whales to drilling for oil?

The whale tale forms the center of the story but, for me, it was the bit players that stole the show - the rays wallowing in the warm water under the pier, the sun fish snoozling close to the legs of the oil rig, the green sea turtles «carrying their homes along with them like aquatic RVs» and the herd of dolphins vying with each other to perform the most dare - devilish tricks (I thought the collective noun for dolphins was pod, but Lynne refers to them as a herd, and I'm not the landlubber to question her!)

Whaling Days in Maui In the early 19th century, whale oil was used to provide heat, in oil lamps for lighting, and powering equipment, while baleen strips...

Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point

Science tells us that exploring and drilling for oil in Alaska would be disastrous to the region's whales and other wildlife, dirtying the water and bringing noise pollution that threatens the survival of many species.

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The book centers on the exploits of the Confederate steamer Shenandoah, which preyed on whaling vessels supplying oil for the Union.

They are greeted by shoals of fish, carpets of plastic pollution, the booms of seismic probes used to prospect for oil and an imagined rendering of a «lonely whale» that I wrote about long ago.

When the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was negotiated more than 60 years ago, the main aim was to sustain whale stocks for their only economic value at the time — as a source of oil and meat.

If we hadn't gone after the whales for oil before figuring out petroleum — and if we managed to invent machinery without whale oil — we might have a lot bigger CO2 sink working.

Should Americans in the 19th century have conserved whale oil so there would be plenty for our lamps?

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has posted Icelandic government records showing sales of whale meat, oil and meal included about 26 tons of whale meal bound for Denmark in Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has posted Icelandic government records showing sales of whale meat, oil and meal included about 26 tons of whale meal bound for Denmark in whale meat, oil and meal included about 26 tons of whale meal bound for Denmark in whale meal bound for Denmark in 2009.

I don't think the mere fact that we are omnivores justifies pinging whales to death, searching for oil.

An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence - based Inupiat culture.

With no clear plan for conservation and alternative energy sources, a serious disruption to our oil supply would, I fear, threaten whales, ANWR, the Endangered Species act, and every other environmental protection out there.

«This year, we will press the United States and other nations to exert strong leadership in advancing an agenda that extends beyond whaling to the broader range of threats that imperil whales throughout our oceans, including ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, entanglement, oil spills, radioactive contamination, emerging diseases and climate change,» says Kitty Block, HSI vice president, who will be attending the IWC meeting for the 14th time.

In the 1800s, whale oil was the primary source of fuel for lanterns.

The whales celebrate with champagne in front of banners that read, «We Wail No More for our Blubber,» «Oil's Well that Ends Well,» and «The Oil Wells of Our Native Land, May They Never Secede,» and «Oily Gammon.»

It started as early as the 1800s when fisherman reduced the whale population to use the blubber for lamp oil.

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The whole — too much CO2 in the atmosphere will be a quaint little issue — like running out of whale oil for lamps.

Wood was burned in great amounts to boil sea water to obtain salt for packing cod for shipping, and to «try» whale meat to extract the valuable oil.

spelling) being naked inside with a small whale oil lamp for heating in the middle of subzero arctic temperatures.

I think the projections for decades into the future will prove as sound as Malthus» projections, the great whale oil crisis of the mid-19th century, the terrible horse manure health crisis projected for cities in the early 20th century, Paul Ehrlich's predictions of doom, and the disappearance of snow and ice in the world that plagues us in 2015.

For example, the Department of the Interior reviews exploration plans and oil spill response plans, the Environmental Protection Agency reviews water pollution plans, and, until recently, air pollution plans, and the National Marine Fisheries Service reviews how activities will affect marine mammals like whales and seals.

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Usually this happens as part of an economic restructuring, often related to new technology, as when whale oil was abandoned as a lamp fuel, as when farmers mechanized operations, or for that matter when the transition to agriculture occurred.

and read some history and think about iron instead of copper / bronze, phonetic instead of pictographic writing systems, decimal systems instead of other archaic number systems, using coal instead of wood, mineral oil instead of whale oil, Haber - Bosch instead of chilean saltpeter, Fischer - Tropsch instead of drilling for oil, Off shore oil drilling etc..

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Later in the twentieth century, whale oil was used for cosmetics and other niche applications, rather than for providing illumination.

Meanwhile, even as alternatives to whale oil were developed, so too were powerful new tools for whaling: the exploding harpoon gun that could be used to kill the blue whale and other large, fast - swimming whales, and the factory ships that could render whales into oil and meat on an industrial scale.