We are experiencing the heaviest energy crisis for fifty years now. Emergencies on availability and on the energy prices with the environmental policies medium-long term that we have given ourselves in Europe. The problems should therefore be tackled with lucid rationality without confusing the various plans, and above all having the courage to put aside old environmentalist ideologies, to examine the real data without prejudice by focusing on scientific research to achieve the decarbonisation of our economies without falling into poverty .
Some signs of greater awareness emerged from a debate organized by FOR in which energy managers from all the main parties took part, even if in the end everyone agreed that it will be difficult to overcome the prejudices widespread in public opinion and that it would be necessary on these issues a broad understanding between political forces to really do the things that need to be done.
Renewables and nuclear power: the recipe against the energy crisis
In general, Arrigoni della Lega, Squeri di Forza Italia and Zollino di Azione converge on the need to face the current emergency with all the systems that allow us to have security of supplies and contained prices in order to safeguard our companies and help the groups most disadvantaged of the population. The fracture occurs on longer-term projects, those that should reduce and then eliminate CO2050 emissions in Europe by 2. Action, Forza Italia e Alloy and probably also Brothers of Italy I'm about to enter the nuclear among our strengths of energy production, not only the one from fusion (which will arrive in 30 or 40 years) but the current one, of third or fourth generation, absolutely safe and also economically convenient. It differs from this position Chiara Braga del PD probably in the company of 5 Stars (who, however, were not present at the debate) according to which the renewable they can satisfy all our needs while for nuclear power we can only participate in the research of fusion power while for the moment plants with current technology must not be built. In short, Italy remains one of the very few countries that does not have nuclear power in its electricity generation park.
The fight against the drills is a loser from an ecological point of view
If we follow the ideologies of the Verdi we risk wasting so many resources and blocking any possibility of growth for this country for a long time. Just think of the battle that the 5 Stars and Emiliano of the PD waged against the TAP from which today 10 billion cubic meters of gas arrive, without which Italy would be on its knees. But the prejudices against the extraction of methane from our subsoil, especially in the Adriatic, have also done us serious damage. While Croatia is extracting all the gas it can (it has ordered six new platforms for extraction) we are still at a standstill. There is talk of abolishing i mining bans and research, but the decrees have not been made. But it gets worse. The professor Zollino has shown that extracting gas from wells relatively close to the coast is much more environmentally friendly than long pipelines running hundreds of kilometers or LPG. Indeed, in gas pipelines there is a certain dispersion of the gas in the atmosphere, as well as in the two operations of liquefaction and regasification. In short, this fight against the Drills is insane but also because it is a loser from an ecological point of view.
Populism collides with a coherent energy policy
With the crisis that broke out last year, our way of managing the energy requirements. We should understand this quickly – concluded the president of Assoambiente Chicco Testa – and radically change our policies. In the short term we have to look after the security of supplies and the cost and therefore, for example, waste of time like those of Piombino which refuses the regasifierthey are absurd. In the medium term we have to set up a policy that Poggi will stand on four legs:
1) the renewable, eliminating the constraints that today prevent their diffusion, but knowing full well that since they are unstable energies they cannot ensure the satisfaction of our continuous energy needs;
2) enhance extractions in our seas to return to the level of about 15 billion cubic meters as a decade ago;
3) immediately install a series of nuclear power plants to cover, as happens in other countries, about 20% of our electricity production;
4) launch a policy of containment of consumption based on targeted incentives.
We, on the other hand, as Arrigoni of the League underlined, have tied our hands with overly ambitious CO2 reduction targets which, on the one hand, have led us to wrong incentives such as those given for the'electric car, and on the other they impose too rigid constraints such as that of banning the sale of internal combustion cars from 35. These are rigidities that make no sense. And in any case to face the long journey of energy transition with the abandonment of fossil fuels, greater cohesion between all political forces would be needed, in order to develop coherent policies which must be based on a work of convincing public opinion, which today instead appears directed towards opposing everything, from wind and photovoltaic, to drilling, from coal-fired plants for emergencies to nuclear ones. With this popular culture and with the parties trying to exploit it, it will be difficult to have a real and coherent energy policy.
