This Mass. Town Once Lit the World With Whale Oil. Now It Wants to Do the Same With Wind Power
New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.
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New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.
New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.
New Bedford aspires to light the world once again with offshore wind energy many years after exporting whale oil for lamps.
New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships.Nearly two centuries later New Bedford
Nearly two centuries after providing the world with whale oil for lamps, New Bedford aspires to light the world again. The city plans to use offshore wind turbines to produce energy.