Indeed, and it’s the particular local situation that makes burning hydrogen (as opposed to using the normal hydrogen fuel cell) for a car make sense for the people there.
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Would love updates on your wife’s project, sounds amazing! 
Just out of interest, do they still speak German in Namibia then, 100 years or so after the end of the colony? 
I will try! ..she’s also working on a project in Ukraine, one in Morocco and one in Cambodia. I was lucky to be her bagman this year for Dominica but it was long way to go to get rained on every day 
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Well, on the plane to Johannesburg or directly to Windhoek in Frankfurt, the plane is full of German tourists and on on coast in say Swakopmund, most of the signage is in German. A South African friend of mine who worked for De Beers in Namibia also told me if quite a few Nazi memorabilia shops in Swakopmund…thinking perhaps that back in the day it was a bit of bolt hole for these nasty people. Dunno.
True. I love Southern Africa @DrMarkH 
. Namibia is wonderful, we’ve been there several times, first time in 1995, last in 2017.
You really must go. Can your wife wangle a fact finding mission or a “site visit”? If so, hire a 4X4 and take a month there. If not, still go and hire a 4X4 and spend a month there . You won’t regret it. Since we lived in SA in 1995 it has already changed so much and soon there will be little or no “Africa au sauvage” left. Just a big Disneyland.
Though you do need to be bushwise…
You really won’t regret it.
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No, but the old colonial houses still have steep roofs, so the snow will slide off 
Namibia also had the first x-ray machine in Africa, in the now ghost town Kolmanskop. We wandered around the place in 1995.
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Thanks John for the fantastic photos. I did actually pass up a trip to Namib from Windhoek to the coast with wife when we were living in Rwanda…I recall at the time I was a bit travel weary and wanted to go back ‘up North’ for my break but you are right, nah e next time I will go but she has the luxury of flying business and I have to go with the un-washed in cattle class…. whilst I fret over my co2 footprint…
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I gather Namibia is very beautiful. Is it safe there ?
Yes very safe..and if considering, break the trip and stay in Cape Town if the routing allows.
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Stumbled upon this article about hydrogen:
Hydrogen, Measured Properly: What 2,000 Projects Reveal About Its Climate Value
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ISTR Desmond Bagley (one of my fave authors) wrote thrillers and I think something of that history in Swakopmund waa incorporated.
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It’s a good article and I suggest that’s is why I’m Namibia they are converting the Hydrogen into ammonia for fertilizer!
What happened to that last vehicle John ? I’m a little innocent, not sure what happened?
Anyway…sorry car afficianadoes…I inadvertently de-railed the thread so with bates breath.
I’m my half eye open search for a decent, proper 4x4 without fangles, GPS, electronic this that and the other (has to be similar in size and performance to the our Lada Niva) and like a mk 1 Land rover in simplicity, I stumbled across this:
I know I know it is Chinese, but so is Volvo, but would love to hear your critique and also check this, would have to go to Spain for a test drive 
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So…I need a simple car, preferably steel rims, no embellishments, steel underbody bash plate (no plastic). 2 seat min, 4 Ok. Ideally no infotainment system. No GPS no ashtray and place to chuck in chainsaws and a bag of groceries.
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Interesting article. Says pretty much what I was trying to say above.
Which one was that Karen. We still have the two EVs. I did just let the family pet 306 Cab go after twenty years 
