New Bedford has lit up the world with whale oil. Now you want to do the same thing with wind power
NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — Once the city that lit the world, New Bedford was exporting massive quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed docks and unloaded barrels of oil extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships. After nearly two …