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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by gregwebs on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:39AM (#27369954)
Whales were going to go extinct so I don’t think there was much choice. Also it had just one main use at the time for oil lamps. That can certainly be disrupted. But if it was a plentiful source it may have been possible to figure out how to use it more broadly.

I agree that history is not destiny. But in this case only if we first understand history.

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Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g... by FooHentai on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:22PM (#27370572)
Random aside, the fantasy world in the Dishonoured games series is a parallel version to ours wherein whale oil formed the basis for the industrial revolution.

This is I think a riff on the Fallout universe, where the transistor was never invented and electronics still bloomed via it's predecessor, vacuum tube technology.

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