[FRIAM] Immersive projection and gasometers

[steve smith]

SG -

fascinating... of course SFe (and any city of the "town gas" era) would 
have such a thing!   do you know if SFe had public lighting or was it 
just used indoors and industrialy?   I always wondered how people 
committed suicide by sticking their head in an oven... it seems that 
before natural gas (town gas/syn gas produced by heating coal/coke/etc 
anaerobically) was prevalent and had a lot of CO in it which was the 
primary "poison" as compared to simple suffocation by excluding O2 laden 
air.

In europe I saw the skeleton/scaffolding from "gasometers" and wondered 
what they were...  it wasn't obvious since they were clearly not sturdy 
enough to hold water-pressure (no longer had their envelopes) ...

I was just reading in Eric Dolen's Leviathan about how France wrote a 
huge contract to the American Whalers (Nantucket) to provide whale oil 
for Paris's not small streetlight network which previously ran on tallow 
candles and vegetable oil lamps...    it was at least partly a way to 
clandestinely fund Americans gearing up to throw of England (who France 
was at odds with at the time).

In Australia (and elsewhere)  sheep/cattle ranchers developed a 
two-water-tank system for generating methane gas to run the arm... 
filling a big (30' diameter?) tank with manure slurry and inverting a 
(28'ish) tank upside down on it created an anaerobic chamber for the 
methane-producing bacteria to go wild.   A hose out the top would feed 
low-pressure (increase it by piling rocks on the inverted tank?) gas to 
the home/outbuildings and in some cases even a tractor coupled via a 
baloon filled (and floating between tank and tractor)...

On 8/1/24 9:43 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> The meeting of projection and my historical interest in gasometers. 
> Santa Fe used to have one near Ft Marcy Park.
>
> https://www.techradar.com/pro/at-almost-131-feet-high-the-worlds-tallest-projector-screen-is-so-big-that-it-needs-seven-ultra-bright-laser-projectors-to-make-it-work
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