[FRIAM] Immersive projection and gasometers

[steve smith]

and we are enough more landlocked to have been using whale-oil? Tallow 
(rendered land-mammal fat) isn't quite as "pure"?  I don't know how many 
fresh lobster or crab get consumed in SFe every day, but I'm betting it 
is in the tens?

On 8/1/24 12:54 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Steve,
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:17 AM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
>     fascinating... of course SFe (and any city of the "town gas" era)
>     would
>     have such a thing! 
>
>
> This 1882 map got my initial interest up - you can see The Santa Fe 
> Gasworks gasometer as item 29 on the north side of town (left side of map)
> image.png
>
> check out full-size map here: 
> https://guerin.acequia.io/SantaFeHistory/Santa-FE-NM-1882-SM.webp. I 
> actually order a poster size print last year.
>
>     do you know if SFe had public lighting or was it
>     just used indoors and industrialy? 
>
>
> Looking in the Santa Fe New Mexican Archive just now, here's a Dec 13, 
> 1880 when the gasworks was completed two years before the 1882 map 
> above by Mr. Ireland saying Santa Fe just became the first town in New 
> Mexico to be lighted by gas and kerosene will become as little used as 
> candles are now.
>
> image.png
>
> Full page from that day: 
> https://guerin.acequia.io/SantaFeHistory/SantaFeGasworks_1880_NewMexicanDec13.png
>
> Wikipedia on Gasholders / Gasometers: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_holder
>
> Nice 90- second UK enthusiast video on history and "rise and fall" of 
> Gasometers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopJr0yHt-w
>
>
>     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)...
>
>
>
> very cool!
>
>
>     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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