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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …