Its a day trip and within easy reach by a normal saloon car. The roads in the park are well maintained and clearly marked. How to Get There : Turn of into the South Lake Road. About a Km from the Simba Lodge, there's a clear sign to the left " Elsa Gate ". Buy a map at the gate, the layout of the Park is quite simple. What to do once in the park : - There are number of campsites, if one is planning an overnight stay - Fishers tower is for the rock climbers - There are a number of picnic sites - Obisidian Caves - Central Tower is also a attraction with a picnic site I headed up to the view-point via the Olkaria Power Station 2. You will exit the off-raod and join the tarmac to the power station area. Those Geothermals will be hissing along the way like jet engines, amazing how much effort is going in to tap into this resource. To get to the view point is fairly easy, just follow the sign posts. As you ascend up the hills, you will reach a sign marked as "Private Road". At this point, take the dirt road on your right that goes up the hill. The drive up is again well worth it. In the background, you can see the mega drill that's works pretty hard. There is a nice small banda with a fireplace at the top, so enjoy the entire view of Lake Naivasha and part of the rift, chillout and enjoy. BTW, I saw no naughty Baboons up this point so its pretty isolated and serene. Rgds.
Geo Thermal, Thats what caught my eye. Question: Does Geothermal contribute to global warming? Im imagining the heat, once trapped in the earth's bowels is suddenly unleashed to our atmosphere... yes? no? maybe? On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Its a day trip and within easy reach by a normal saloon car. The roads in the park are well maintained and clearly marked.
How to Get There : Turn of into the South Lake Road. About a Km from the Simba Lodge, there's a clear sign to the left " Elsa Gate ". Buy a map at the gate, the layout of the Park is quite simple.
What to do once in the park :
- There are number of campsites, if one is planning an overnight stay - Fishers tower is for the rock climbers - There are a number of picnic sites - Obisidian Caves - Central Tower is also a attraction with a picnic site
I headed up to the view-point via the Olkaria Power Station 2. You will exit the off-raod and join the tarmac to the power station area. Those Geothermals will be hissing along the way like jet engines, amazing how much effort is going in to tap into this resource. To get to the view point is fairly easy, just follow the sign posts. As you ascend up the hills, you will reach a sign marked as "Private Road". At this point, take the dirt road on your right that goes up the hill. The drive up is again well worth it. In the background, you can see the mega drill that's works pretty hard. There is a nice small banda with a fireplace at the top, so enjoy the entire view of Lake Naivasha and part of the rift, chillout and enjoy. BTW, I saw no naughty Baboons up this point so its pretty isolated and serene.
Rgds.
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@Areba, if this was to be unleashed in Rwanda's Lake Kivu, the Geos are nothing... :-) A Dangerous Treasure in Lake Kivu *There is a wealth of methane trapped in a lake in the heart of Africa. Engineers hope to transform the gas from the depths of the lake into electricity, but if it escapes in an uncontrolled manner, the methane could cause a catastrophe.* Patrick Muhizi sits under an umbrella at the Bikini Tam-Tam Bar, keeping a watchful eye on the perfectly smooth surface of Lake Kivu. The sun is shining, but Muhizi blows his whistle whenever the children wander too far out into the lake. With good reason: The 19-year-old Rwandan is the manager of a beach club on the world's most dangerous lake. Kivu, in central Africa, has already swallowed three people this year, when bubbles apparently sucked the bathers down into the depths. Sometimes dead fish float to the surface. Lake Kivu, at the foot of the Virunga Volcano Chain, lies in a groove in the earth's crust known as the East African Rift. The Congolese jungle grows rampant along its western shore and Rwanda's coffee plantations stretch along the eastern side. Activity in the tectonic faults throughout the Rift causes periodic earthquakes. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,597619,00.html On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Geo Thermal, Thats what caught my eye. Question:
Does Geothermal contribute to global warming? Im imagining the heat, once trapped in the earth's bowels is suddenly unleashed to our atmosphere... yes? no? maybe?
@aki...that's very true...saw a documentary on Nat Geo Wild yesterday morning touching on the same issue of 'stratification' - tons of gases trapped beneath otherwise harmless-looking lakes.
Areba; Been there its quite "hellish", I had a chance to visit the whole park and damn, its a hot place. The geothermal plants actually look like they cool the steam (it seems cloudy n cool around the plants) so its not a risky business On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:01 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Areba, if this was to be unleashed in Rwanda's Lake Kivu, the Geos are nothing... :-)
A Dangerous Treasure in Lake Kivu
*There is a wealth of methane trapped in a lake in the heart of Africa. Engineers hope to transform the gas from the depths of the lake into electricity, but if it escapes in an uncontrolled manner, the methane could cause a catastrophe.*
Patrick Muhizi sits under an umbrella at the Bikini Tam-Tam Bar, keeping a watchful eye on the perfectly smooth surface of Lake Kivu. The sun is shining, but Muhizi blows his whistle whenever the children wander too far out into the lake. With good reason: The 19-year-old Rwandan is the manager of a beach club on the world's most dangerous lake. Kivu, in central Africa, has already swallowed three people this year, when bubbles apparently sucked the bathers down into the depths. Sometimes dead fish float to the surface.
I drove along Lake Kivu this past weekend from Rwanda enroute to Goma, DRC - it is truly formidable On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Areba, if this was to be unleashed in Rwanda's Lake Kivu, the Geos are nothing... :-)
A Dangerous Treasure in Lake Kivu
*There is a wealth of methane trapped in a lake in the heart of Africa. Engineers hope to transform the gas from the depths of the lake into electricity, but if it escapes in an uncontrolled manner, the methane could cause a catastrophe.*
Patrick Muhizi sits under an umbrella at the Bikini Tam-Tam Bar, keeping a watchful eye on the perfectly smooth surface of Lake Kivu. The sun is shining, but Muhizi blows his whistle whenever the children wander too far out into the lake. With good reason: The 19-year-old Rwandan is the manager of a beach club on the world's most dangerous lake. Kivu, in central Africa, has already swallowed three people this year, when bubbles apparently sucked the bathers down into the depths. Sometimes dead fish float to the surface.
Lake Kivu, at the foot of the Virunga Volcano Chain, lies in a groove in the earth's crust known as the East African Rift. The Congolese jungle grows rampant along its western shore and Rwanda's coffee plantations stretch along the eastern side. Activity in the tectonic faults throughout the Rift causes periodic earthquakes. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,597619,00.html
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Geo Thermal, Thats what caught my eye. Question:
Does Geothermal contribute to global warming? Im imagining the heat, once trapped in the earth's bowels is suddenly unleashed to our atmosphere... yes? no? maybe?
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@brian, how safe is it? can one drive all the way to the atlantic? On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
I drove along Lake Kivu this past weekend from Rwanda enroute to Goma, DRC - it is truly formidable
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Areba, if this was to be unleashed in Rwanda's Lake Kivu, the Geos are nothing... :-)
A Dangerous Treasure in Lake Kivu
*There is a wealth of methane trapped in a lake in the heart of Africa. Engineers hope to transform the gas from the depths of the lake into electricity, but if it escapes in an uncontrolled manner, the methane could cause a catastrophe.*
Patrick Muhizi sits under an umbrella at the Bikini Tam-Tam Bar, keeping a watchful eye on the perfectly smooth surface of Lake Kivu. The sun is shining, but Muhizi blows his whistle whenever the children wander too far out into the lake. With good reason: The 19-year-old Rwandan is the manager of a beach club on the world's most dangerous lake. Kivu, in central Africa, has already swallowed three people this year, when bubbles apparently sucked the bathers down into the depths. Sometimes dead fish float to the surface.
Lake Kivu, at the foot of the Virunga Volcano Chain, lies in a groove in the earth's crust known as the East African Rift. The Congolese jungle grows rampant along its western shore and Rwanda's coffee plantations stretch along the eastern side. Activity in the tectonic faults throughout the Rift causes periodic earthquakes. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,597619,00.html
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
Geo Thermal, Thats what caught my eye. Question:
Does Geothermal contribute to global warming? Im imagining the heat, once trapped in the earth's bowels is suddenly unleashed to our atmosphere... yes? no? maybe?
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To balance pressure the steam is channeled back to earth in a similar manner as the way its tapped. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from Zain Kenya -----Original Message----- From: Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com> Sender: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:39:29 To: Skunkworks Mailing List<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Reply-To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] OT : Hells Gate National Park, Naivasha _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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