Sentences with phrase «whale oil as»

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

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But by 1900, production had reached 60 million barrels annually as world markets replaced wood and whale oil with petroleum and coal as the fuels of choice.

Industrial whaling, once a linchpin of the coastal economy, faded away as whale oil could not compete with petroleum - derived kerosene.

Much of a sperm whale's head is occupied by the spermaceti organ, a huge fibrous cask containing a milky, waxy material that was highly prized as a lubricant and lamp oil, and which to Nantucket whalers looked like nothing more than gallons and gallons of semen — hence the name.

«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.

Also, it contained satisfying amounts of whale oil and baleen, the keratin fringes and fronds that span its huge mouth and filter seawater, and that were, confusingly, sold as «whalebone,» a substance so essential and ubiquitous it was the nineteenth century plastic.

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.

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.

This gruesome procedure is depicted in some detail, along with the decision to force Tom to crawl into the putrid carcass of the whale in order to collect as much oil as possible.

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.

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!)

The details about the whaling industry in Nantucket and how oil was extracted from the huge creatures are fascinating, as are the facts and speculation about the physical and psychological ramifications the disaster had on the crew.

Western gray whales are facing, the large - scale offshore oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.

The cloud whales have the ability to absorb different liquids or small objects, such as water, oil, or nuts, which can then be dropped or shot at objects.

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.

Drilling and fuel shipping have also increased the chances of oil spills, which would affect the bowhead and other whales, seals, and walruses in the Bering Straight as well as the 12 million birds that nest and forage in the area every year.

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

These activities pose a major threat to Arctic cetaceans such as the beluga whale, especially the possibility of a heavy fuel oil (HFO) spill.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, by making Kerosene cheap and universally available as a luminant, did more than Greenpeace will ever do to save the whales.

Consider a case study of substitution offered by some of the Breakthrough Institute scholars who signed the Ecomodernist Manifesto: the replacement of whale oil by fuels such as kerosene, which, they argue, helped spare many species of whales from extinction at the harpoons of the whalers in the nineteenth century.