Qualla: Secunda CTL https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Secunda CTL https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl Secunda CTL: Introduction https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl/ There is one place on Earth where you can fill a car with petrol made entirely from rock. It sits on the grassland of Mpumalanga, a city-sized tangle of towers, pipes, and chimneys that never sleeps. Secunda was conjured from chemistry and politics: a town and a plant built so that an isolated nation could make its own fuel without a drop of crude oil. The result is an industrial marvel and an environmental superlative of the worst kind, the single largest source of greenhouse gas on the planet.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/k/8/secunda-ctl-wp/kek8-secunda-ctl-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Secunda CTL: Petrol From Coal https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl/ The trick is older than it looks. The Fischer-Tropsch process, developed in Germany in the 1920s, gasifies coal and reassembles the gas into liquid hydrocarbons, in effect manufacturing crude oil from a mineral. Sasol scaled it up to a degree no one else ever has. The Secunda com...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/k/8/secunda-ctl-wp/kek8-secunda-ctl-petrol-from-coal.mp3 0:06 2 full Secunda CTL: Born of Embargo https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl/ Secunda exists because of isolation. When the oil shocks of the 1970s and the growing embargo against apartheid South Africa threatened to cut off imported crude, the government bet on its one abundant resource: coal. Building the plant was a way to make the country fuel-independ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/k/8/secunda-ctl-wp/kek8-secunda-ctl-born-of-embargo.mp3 0:06 3 full Secunda CTL: The Carbon Giant https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl/ The same chemistry that frees a country from imported oil exacts an enormous price in carbon. Turning solid coal into liquid fuel is profoundly carbon-intensive, and Secunda releases about 56.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, more than entire industrialized nations s...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/e/k/8/secunda-ctl-wp/kek8-secunda-ctl-the-carbon-giant.mp3 0:06 4 full Secunda CTL: A Skyline of Its Own https://qualla.com/secunda-ctl/ From the air, Secunda announces itself long before you reach it. Cooling towers and gas flares cluster across the veld, and above them all rises the Sasol III steam plant chimney, a reinforced-concrete stack about 301 meters tall. It is the tallest free-standing structure in sub-...

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