Sentences with phrase «use whale oil»

Suppose we use whale oil to replace fossil fuels.

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.

Peter Wrege and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, used listening devices similar to those designed to eavesdrop on whales to monitor the sounds and seismic activity of oil prospecting in the Loango National Park in Gabon.

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.

Other fats such as lard, tallow, sesame oil, perilla oil, whale oil, meat and egg yolk (all used in the traditional Japanese diet), and even from milk products (used in fairly large quantities today) will raise fat calories to something like 20 - 30 percent of the total.

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

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...

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.

We used whales in the mid 1800s like we use oil now.

The reason the whales are rare in the first place is that we used to get the oil straight out of them.

The study, published in the journal Aquatic Toxicology, is titled «Chemical dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis are cytotoxic and genotoxic to sperm whale cells.»

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

Before fossil fuels, people used wood and dung or whale oil.

A court settlement filed today requires the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure that toxic oil - dispersing chemicals used in federal waters off California will not harm sea turtles, whales and other endangered species or their habitats.

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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..

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.