The European Commission is not very convinced of the actions undertaken by Italy, nor the pieces of the amendments added to the decree for waste management, passed the House with 300 votes in favour, 23 against and 200 abstained. The notice came directly from Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas who received yesterday Guido Bertolaso, Undersecretary of the emergency waste in Campania (here is the audio review).

The aim is to avoid treating an environmental problem by creating new

Di mas insisted seen with Bertolaso, side Europe more as the commitment made by Italy to avoid fines and penalties and with the notice to act within the law, repeatedly emphasized and confirmed by Dimas.

This morning Fulvio Conti, CEO of Enel, was host for Radio, too, historical transmission of Radio 1 in which besides the big names also listeners can express their feelings. Conti was a special guest of “A tu for you with the leaders” led by the Director Caprarica, and has told Enel’s position on a range of energy issues as well as clarify certain aspects of bills and incentives. If you are interested in deepening you can search for the podcasts on the website of Radio Rai. Or accontentarvi read things that I appuntata and carryover.

It starts with the energy issue more topical in Italy, or a return to nuclear energy. According to Conti Italy is already a nuclear country, because imports 20% of its energy from France (produced by nuclear) and because there are many along the central Italian borders. Personally I do not think that is sufficient to call “a nuclear country”, but if we use these arguments to justify the return all’atomo we are evil. Conti also provides about 7 years to return to have the first functioning central, between design and construction of the plant. The crux thorny are the permits, but he expects a drastic reduction of waiting times for this stage… I know that have already made agree!

The Italian energy situation described does not appear to be the most hopeful. Italy depends for 65% from gas, but in the last 25 years have not been made on infrastructure investment in this regard. We depend from “a pipe from Russia and one from Algeria,” and we have not yet rigassificatori. But it is not only gas and nuclear the recipe proposed by Conti.

In the post earlier you spoke location termovalorizzatore to Agnano in Via Scarfoglio, a few kilometers from the reserve of Astroni which is also threatened by recent events. RDS and WWF have launched a campaign for a fundraiser that allows the creation of a great school environment to educate more young people to defend the nature every day of their lives and to transmit this very important value.

Of course not talking about a traditional school, but rather a natural laboratory, outdoors, to learn about nell’Oasi nature. To contribute just send an SMS to the number 48584 at a cost of 1 euro and 2 euro phone fixed (VAT incl.).

These photos are curious how the transaction that are making these people. If we did translation errors, the Department of Water and Power “in Los Angeles has thrown into the cistern of Ivanhoe well 400,000 plastic balls with a diameter of 10 cm. A criminal as deliberate act of pollution? No, all the opposite. These balls will serve to protect water from solar radiation. When the sunlight strikes bromide (bromide) and the chlorine present in water, form bromate (bromate), which is carcinogenic.

Water on Mars! Arriva once Twitter by the announcement of NASA astronauts who have pointed out (see it through pictures thanks to NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona / Texas A & M University) ice water on Mars. The channel is MarsPhoenix and press release.

“It must be ice,” said Phoenix Principal Investigator, Peter Smith, the University of Arizona in Tucson. “Pezzetti son who disappeared entirely within a few days, the test is proven that this is ice. There was some debate whether the material could be bright salt. But the salt does not behave like this. “

But on June 13 last year has resumed Reuters, one of the largest news agencies worldwide and therefore, having had crismi dell’ufficialità was considered a true story. Reuters, however, has played up It was included in the category “costume and sport” as if to say: if it is true that we ve; if it is a buffalo we put between things curious. Probably not for their expose this kind of news. But I am surprised as the Corriere della sera may have given without a minimum depth.

So, we often talk about hydrogen-powered car and we know that the fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen combine with the help of a catalyst, producing water, heat and electricity, without noise and emissions void. But we also know that to separate the molecules of hydrogen and oxygen we need a lot of energy, most of what is produced and hence the performance is low.

In the case of car running water who provides the energy needed to separate hydrogen molecules from oxygen? comes from where? There is an internal generator of energy? And what power? How fed? And if there’s a generator outside as fed and with what power? So to produce hydrogen we want industrial plants that meet stringent safety rules, which manage storage at low temperatures and because with the explosive power of hydrogen plus oxygen not joking.

To greet the summer at the gates instead of the usual “barbosa” review will propose today a beautiful video. This is the “sneak peek” of the new cycle of conferences good Al Gore made to the “mythical” TED TALKS to March 2008: New thinking on the climate crisis. After the success of an inconvenient truth Al Gore back with a new round of TALKS (which we hope to see soon also in Italy) on climate change and the challenges that humanity will face in the coming years.

In this video that old fox of Al Gore has turned comunicativamente on a dialectical style decidedly more preacher. It seems the brains of Americans are much more receptive to such an approach much more mystical and passionate. The video (16 minutes) is obviously in English, but understands quite well thanks to the “legendary slides” of former president almost from the United States.

A blackout lasted two hours, from 11 to 13 yesterday which put out of use and metropolitan traffic lights and causing traffic crazy in London. Hundreds of thousands of people trapped in elevators and offices also in the north east and north west of England without energy. The news that learns only in these hours, covered the sudden closure of the nuclear power station Sizewell B in Suffolk and central coal Longanne that went wrecks few minutes of each other involving energy down in seven other power plants .
He reports The Independent:

British Energy has refused to disclose the reason for the accident but said that already is taking steps to restore the operation of and protect the integrity of the network, said a spokesman. The National Grid, the institution that handles the distribution and control electricity, has issued three warnings in a crescendo alarm. The last - the so-called “demand control of imminence” is rare and is sent every 4 years and covered about their declining power granted against a demand too high.

The bulk limit energy efficiency of solar panels can be overcome with modern superconductors that triple the number of electrons transportable: the researchers have discovered the University of Technology in Delft (Netherlands) and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter of having used nanocristalli for the experiment el’hanno renamed “snowball effect”, precisely because of the considerable increase in performance.

The trials will take off after the publication of the journal Nano Letter. To date it is not possible to estimate how many years will be available commercially this neimportant thing is to know that a turning point for the w technology, but the energy problem exists. In a time of crisis of supply and soaring energy demand, a similar technological innovation that can only benefit the environment and perhaps slow down a little ‘growth in prices.

Giampiero Maracchi, director of ‘Institute of Biometeorology CNR, during the conference on climate, energy and environmental challenges of which we talked a few days ago, told of how the biometereologico institute has calculated that only vestendosi in a more wise and lowering of two degrees heating in homes during the winter, was already at 20% of the effort needed to respect the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol.

Until 50 years ago people used clothes heavier the current rating to protect themselves from the cold. To make the concept a numerically head of clothing of our grandfathers weighed on average 550 grams per square meter, while one of those who use us about 200. Today most of the tissues that we use and ‘import, whereas until a few decades ago was used Italian wool and other fibers such as hemp and obviously, the textile industry was born and closed locally.

Today 95% of wool that is tosata in Italy ends in landfills as waste special. That remaining 5% is used in construction, insulation, or somewhere that the craftsman infeltrisce to make handbags and hats. Certainly, the sheep wool and cashmere, ‘a little’ softer and layout of our clothes where work is cheaper can earn much, but throughout this speech should include the environmental costs of transport that, for now, producers they do travel unload their goods on the community.