2020年9月5日 · The mercury that my research has found in whale tissue likely traces back to coal. But petroleum-based fossil fuels threaten marine life even more visibly: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which pushed the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale to the “brink of extinction” through habitat loss is perhaps the most salient example in recent ...

2025年2月28日 · Just as coal- and petroleum-derived products saved the whales (twice!) the US shale gas revolution led to the rapid decline of the nation’s coal sector and associated drops in carbon emissions and conventional pollution.

EarlyAmerican Whale Ship Bob Johnson Abstract This essay explores the pursuit of energy in a world dominated by human muscles and renewable fuels—in a world, that is, before coal and petroleum made us modern. It begins by reconstructing the metabolism of an early American whale ship, or what we might think of as the ecology ofproduction that ...

2017年10月25日 · Radical innovations in the methods of whaling began in the 1860s on the Finnmark coast in northern Norway, led by Sven Foyn, which ultimately transformed the entire industry, marking the emergence of modern whaling. One major change was the switch away from sail to coal-fired steamships (and later to diesel-powered ships).

2021年1月16日 · Kerosene, known in those days at "Coal Oil", was easy to produce, cheap, smelled better than animal-based fuels when burned, and did not spoil on the shelf as whale oil did. The public abandoned whale oil lamps almost overnight.

Most lamp fuels were a variety of far cheaper oils derived from plants, land animals, or coal - fuels like turpentine, lard, kerosene, alcohol, ... One very popular witch's brew was camphine - a turpentine derivative mixed with camphor oil. So the market had driven us away from using whale oil well before petroleum oil became a major business.

2016年12月6日 · In 1846, his mineral research resulted in a liquid combined out of coal, bitumen and oil shale, which he called kerosene.

2020年6月29日 · Cue TED talk: “Oil didn’t save the whales, and market forces aren’t going to solve climate change.” Social systems cascade too. The oil salvation narrative settles on the singularity that commercial whaling was banned only because superior substitutes for whale products had been found.

2019年11月22日 · Whale oil, according to the proponents of this argument, was never really competitive. By the time kerosene appeared on the scene, demand was already in decline because of its price and the...

2022年5月4日 · Similar to Canada’s Abraham Gesner’s delivery of kerosene, saving the whales from becoming extinct, we firmly believe that Frontieras will harness the efficiencies of FASForm to save our ...