Sentences with phrase «whale oil after»
We transitioned away from whale oil after discovering much more abundant and useful petroleum - derived kerosene, not because we were running out of whales.
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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.»
After all, someone needed to be there to keep the whale oil burning.
The trailer, which starred Norman Reedus (who's likely going to be the game's protagonist), involved a large amount of dead marine life (crabs and whales and dolphins galore), oil, cables, and a Caesarian section on Norman Reedus after he apparently gave birth.
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.