The Innovation File: Solving a whale of a problem
magazine.washington.edu
Frank Erickson created a synthetic sperm whale oil that saved millions of automatic transmissions worldwide.
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  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    I’m glad we found an alternative before people started using some sort of CAFO style farming for whale oil. All I can picture is like maple syrup tree taps in the poor animals heads.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
      1 month

      According to another comment here, we only truly found alternatives because whaling was getting banned.