No al carbone Alto Lazio

24 aprile 2008

Il New York Times sull'uso del carbone, citato il caso Civitavecchia



Parliamo dell'articolo "Europe Turns Back to Coal, Raising Climate Fears" apparso su New York Times .com (leggi qui l'originale)

Il celebre giornale parla delle preoccupazioni e dei movimenti di opposizione che nascono in tutto il mondo contro il folle ritorno all'uso del carbone a scopi energetici.

"...Europe’s power station owners emphasize that they are making the new coal plants as clean as possible. But critics say that “clean coal” is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change. They call the building spurt shortsighted.

“Building new coal-fired power plants is ill conceived,” said James E. Hansen, a leading climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “Given our knowledge about what needs to be done to stabilize climate, this plan is like barging into a war without having a plan for how it should be conducted, even though information is available.

“We need a moratorium on coal now,” he added, “with phase-out of existing plants over the next two decades.”..."

Da notare come l'Autore dell'articolo scivoli in modo piuttosto dilettantesco riportando ingenuamente (speriamo) le balle di Enel su TVN definita "futura centrale a carbone più pulita d'Europa".

D'altro canto, emerge chiaramente come nel mondo scientifico le annunciate soluzioni per lo stoccaggio della CO2, siano destinate ad attivarsi solo nella fantasia e nella propaganda pro-carbone delle lobbies interessate da questo business:

"...Without carbon capture and storage, coal cannot be green. But solving that problem will take global coordination and billions of dollars in investment, which no one country or company seems inclined to spend, said Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

“Figuring out carbon capture is really critical — it may not work in the end — and if it is not viable, the situation, with respect to climate change, is far more dire,” Mr. Sachs said..."


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