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I am a new traveling fool. I've been a corporate travel junkie for one too many sales quarters and am ready to spend my hard earned cash... I'm taking a "sabbatical" for a while and hitting the road to travel. The trip should take me to six out of the seven continents if I don't run out of cash early.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

First thoughts in Africa

Wow, I thought Asia was different than America! I'm getting the feeling Africa is going to be an amazing opportunity to continue learning outside of western dominated thought.

I'm at the joberg airport and there are six massive nuclear vent stacks (think the Simpsons). With everything that just happened in Japan I can't help but think a bit differently about nuclear power. I've also never seen this many stacks near each-other. This must be a similar design to the Japanese plant.

What else? I see a lot of smiles thus far. The south African accent is still a bit different than NZ and OZ.

Off to Zimbabwe in a few...

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM

    Just a note: those are not nuclear power plants. Many coal plants and other plants which require heat rejection (any large power plant that isn't wind or hydro) will need some sort of cooling. Sometimes this is done with the ocean, other times its done using large cooling towers that evaporate water to create steam.

    The only nuclear power plant in SA is near Cape Town in Koeburg.

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