User:Grahamstephen/sandbox

Scaramanga may refer to:
 * Francisco Scaramanga is the name of a fictional James Bond character.
 * The Scaramanga Roped Race is a ski race.

Douglass's lighthouse - Oil Storage Capacity
The oil storage capacity stated seems implausible. The Story of our Lighthouses and Lightships: Descriptive and Historical does state a storage capacity of 2,660 tons (presumably long tons). I think that this is an error in the cited source and it should actually be gallons.

The oil referred to is colza oil with density of 0.93 tons per cubic metre. This would give a volume for 2,660 tons of 2,906 cubic metres - more than the ubiquitous olympic sized swimming pool and very much larger than the two oil rooms which have a total volume of about 26 cubic metres and also contain the staircases and the housing for the weight. If the 2,660 tons lasted for nine months, about 10 tons would need to be carried from the oil rooms to the top of the tower every day... The crew would have to be superhuman.

Looking at contemporary oil consumption, a figure of 2,026 gallons per annum is broadly in keeping with the storage being 2,660 gallons rather than tons.

... not a Pharologist, but a Pharophile  ... Graham Stephen 16:59, 11 May 2019 (UTC)