Who says you can not, perhaps it is not in good faith. and if they say it is a political ... well ... I do not vote! Here is the frontier of the post-oil era. Nuclear 's useless "green"! Wind, geothermal and solar energy. And while the inflation rate in Italy (only in Italy and throughout Europe - complimentoni this government done only commercials, taxes and measures against the weak Italian or not) comes to 6.1% and no longer know how to live. .. I think it's fair to find alternative mechanisms based on oil market speculation.
And by the way read this article taken from the Republic:
Experts here is the project to say goodbye to oil. Sarkozy was inserted between the objectives of the Union for the Mediterranean.
Super-mirrors in the Sahara desert and illuminates Europe
Envoy CINZIA SASSO
an expanse of solar panels as thin as distributed mirrors belt in the Sahara desert. A network of high voltage cables running from North Africa and branches out to North Europe. Could this be the solution for the more dramatic problems that the modern world is to fight: the energy shortage and air pollution. Become a reality if what scientists have told a few days ago the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthere's more to have no concern for the future. At least in our old Europe. Just steal the rays ignite the desert, the largest in the world that we have right here in home, and transfer. The solar panels scattered throughout the Sahara could indeed lead directly to our house all the energy we need. Clean and renewable energy. So practically infinite and non-polluting. At a cost of 15 cents per kilowatt on average lower today. The project includes the North African desert in the dissemination of solar photovoltaic panels, planted to catch the sunlight in a place where its power is three times higher than that which has, for example, in Northern Europe. Would be enough to warm winter throughout the continent, occupying an area of \u200b\u200bdesert the size of Lombardy. The uptake of such collection, and especially its storage, however, become part most challenging part of the plan: to transport the energy from North Africa across Europe, is necessary a vast network of high voltage distribution with costs that today would be very high. Overall, the project may touch 35.7 billion euro. Other studies will then be able to imagine a greater technological efficiency and less cost prohibitive. But spending so high, if we allow it to achieve a zero carbon dioxide emissions and can run until the end of the world, could be written off.
Arnulf Jaeger-Walden of the Institute for Energy of the European Commission, says that would be enough to capture 0.3% of the sunlight that floods the Sahara to ensure the whole of Europe all the energy it needs. And Giovanni De Santi, Italian nuclear engineer who directs the Institute in Brussels, said that studies are the result of efforts to help Europe to achieve the goals we set ourselves for 2020: reduce by 20% CO2 emissions and find alternative and renewable sources of energy. "It would be - he adds - something really absurd if we were not able to pool our resources and our knowledge to solve a common problem and dramatic." If scholars describe a specific plan, and not just a dream, it is clear that, for its realization, we need strong political support. According to the British newspaper Guardian, also this additional step has already been made: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President had already discussed it. Sarkozy would put the achievement of the objectives of the plan on the agenda of the Union for the Mediterranean, the body which brings together the countries of the area and that was just baptized in Paris. Some countries like Spain and Portugal, have long invested in solar energy, Algeria has begun construction of a huge system that combines solar power and natural gas. They are the first small steps to break dependence on oil.
(August 12, 2008)
