Sentences with phrase «whale oil»

The same man who got rich off of petroleum was doing just fine with whale oil.

They used to use whale oil until they realized they were killing the whales.

Now we know because of this capacity to look at ourselves with new eyes, but it couldn't happen had we been powering our civilization on whale oil or its predecessors.

If you look at history, today's debate over energy and environment is like the old 18th century debate over whale oil and whale preservation.

The same man who got rich off of petroleum was doing just fine with whale oil.

This was elicited by the relatively high price of whale oil as the whales got shy and scarce.

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A few feet away penguins waddle around former whale oil tanks and fur seals slumber in the sunshine.

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Instead, just as whale oil profits provided the «start - up funds» for Rockefeller to develop refineries, I expect that oil and natural gas cash flows will be used to fund the entrance into new markets for the major oil stocks of today.

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.

Its main focus is on two men, First Mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain George Pollard (Benjamin Walker) and their obsession and arrogance to bring a record - breaking amount of whale oil back to New England.

In 1970, the Irving Whale oil barge sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, resulting in a significant oil spill that fouled the shoreline of the Magdalen Islands.

In the play Angels in America, Prior, a character living with AIDS, describes the arrival of his ancestor, a ship captain who made his living by bringing whale oil to the Old World and immigrants to the New World.

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

a wide - eyed Melville remarks after Nickerson mentions a white whale, strictly for the benefit of some nerd class of filmgoer2), and they gradually descend into smug historical irony of the «Picasso dialogue in Titanic» variety, as the two men discuss a rumoured alternative to whale oil siphoned from a hole in the ground.

At the end of the film (some spoilers), the white - haired moneyed men of Big Whale Oil are worried what the truth will do to their industry.

A boy is forced to crawl into the carcass of a dead and putrid animal to retrieve whale oil.

Starring Chris Hemsworth as experienced first mate Owen Chase, and Benjamin Walker as the untested Captain Pollard, the film begins by taking us back to 1820 and to Nantucket, New England where the whaling ship Essex has set off to find whale oil to bring back to fuel the city.

More ships followed in the two following winters, after which gray whaling in the bay was nearly abandoned because «of the inferior quality and low price of the dark - colored gray whale oil, the low quality and quantity of whalebone from the gray, and the dangers of lagoon whaling.»

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

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We transitioned away from whale oil after discovering much more abundant and useful petroleum - derived kerosene, not because we were running out of whales.

I mean, back in the late 19th Century, the increasing price of whale oil turned folks to kerosene before we killed ALL the whales (thankfully).

Instead, just as whale oil profits provided the «start - up funds» for Rockefeller to develop refineries, I expect that oil and natural gas cash flows will be used to fund the entrance into new markets for the major oil stocks of today.

Most buildings were lit with whale oil.

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

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.

Before electricity became widely available, about 100 years ago, candles, whale oil lamps, and kerosene lamps provided light, iceboxes kept food cold, and wood - burning or coal - burning stoves provided heat.

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

Under pressure from their sponsoring merchant company to bring home as many barrels of whale oil as possible, the crew sets sail with then 14 - year - old Nickerson (Tom Holland) aboard.

This has played out satisfactorily in the procession from wood to whale oil to coal to oil and natural gas, but the concept that no real substitute is available runs counter to capitalist ideals.

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.

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