New Bedford once lit the world with whale oil. Now it wants to do the same with wind power

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- 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.

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