Tuesday, March 1, 2011

A power plant a day keeps the doctor away

With great relief the Corriere della Sera on February 28 under heading home ideas & views of Professor Umberto Veronesi, an operation that converts the aspiration of the Arab peoples to democracy in a warning for the next round of referendum on nuclear power. In short, the professor believes that we should finally give the green light to nuclear power stations to do away with reliance on unreliable partner, which can close the valves of oil and gas when the wind of change blowing through the curtains of the corrupt local dictator.

All'esimio doctor and the future of the Agency for Nuclear Safety does not pass even to her that: 1) we could construct the real energy independence within a reasonable time - not like the biblical use of the reactor - only with the efficiency , energy conservation, research and application spread of solar energy.

Moreover, firmly anchored into a European firm and well worthy of cooperation, helping to address realistically the employment crisis that strikes young people and researchers, and contains fines fearful that we will be forced to pay to the Kyoto Protocol expires. 2) The civil and human tragedy of the Libyan people should inspire us to go out of business trade technology and assistance for the supply of fossil fuels (even to the detriment of democracy between Tripoli and Benghazi, as has happened so far in the agreements between Eni and Berlusconi Gaddafi), for cooperation in setting up projects and technology transfer on renewable sources.

As for the interlace and transportation of natural energy resources (wind, sun, wave motion) in front of the southern Mediterranean is rich. Instead, until now Enel and Eni have blinked only to exchanges between nuclear investments in Libya and Egypt and beneficial ownership and import of gas and oil.

3) Pursuing independence through the supply chain of uranium means continuing to depend on commercial and military technologies to balance and certainly not in our hands and supplies from more distant from possible democratic control, such as that which people today aspire to ferment (just think of the Niger or some Central Asian republics).

In short, calling Veronesi seems just another uncritical support for the proposal of the government, against which you can vote yes to stop the nuclear referendum to be held by June. "For years we men of science - says our - preach and support the construction of hundreds of nuclear plants." Fortunately, even without listening among leading scientists, as Dennis Meadows, a spokesman for a gathering of 12 Nobel laureates at MIT, dissuades us from the illusion Atomic.

The American scientist warns that there should be a power of 1000 MW per day continuously for 50 years to cover the hole created by the expectation of energy spread to the world's current consumption of the rich. With all due respect to the militarization of society, the proliferation of weapons and terrorism and the uncontrolled spread of cancer in all corners of the planet.

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