[FRIAM] Immersive projection and gasometers

Thu Aug 1 18:11:37 EDT 2024

On 8/1/24 3:13 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> When I was a little boy in rural NM we lit the house at night with 
> what my grandfather called coal oil (kerosene) lamps.
>
And I believe there is a Russian MiG stationed at SFe Airport which will 
run on Kerosene (among a range of similar fuels)... I've seen it climb 
out fast "rolling coal" like a trump supporter driving through a BLM rally.


> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, 12:55 PM Stephen Guerin 
> <stephen.guerin at simtable.com> 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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