Alas, Babylon
What were they now using to produce light?
Chapter 12
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Chapter 12
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They no longer had candles or kerosene but their lamps and lanterns burned furnace oil extracted from the underground tanks with a bilge pump. It was true that furnace oil smoked, and stank, and produced yellow and inefficient light. But it was light.