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whale oil · what saved them the first time
petroleum saved the whales the first time. kerosene undercut whale oil for lamps in the 1860s and the yankee fleet went home. then diesel ships and the exploding harpoon nearly finished them a century later.
method historical: Starbuck 1878; Tønnessen & Johnsen 1982.
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=whale%20oil" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · whale oil"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- historical: Starbuck 1878; Tønnessen & Johnsen 1982.
- range
- n/a
- confidence
- count
- weakness
- none material.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-103 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0