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Italy Returns to Nuclear Power While the World Looks Ahead

Italy Returns to nuclear Power while the World Looks Ahead Eco Worldly, by Eva Pratesi, 10 July 09 While world leaders are addressing the issue of climate change during G8 in L’Aquila, Italy has chosen to ditch research and promotion of renewable energy sources going back into a dangerous past. Environmental organisation Legambiente meanwhile described the law as a ”return to energy prehistory”, saying United States President Barack Obama had ”refused to finance” that technology because it was ”polluting and unsafe”.The cost of building four nuclear plants would be 20-25 billion euros, while they would contribute less than 5% to the country’s energy consumption………………………………….The law foresee that nuclear power will produce a 25% of the electric energy needed in Italy. But the production of electric energy represents only a 18% of our total energy demand, with a 82% plus required by means of transport. Attending to the new law, the goal of 25%, concerning that 18% of electric production, means that nuclear energy will satisfy only a 4.5% of the Italian energy demand.
– A recent research,  “The case for investing in energy productivity” by McKinsey Global Institute, explains that applying energy efficiency in building sector would be possible to cover a 4% of our national consumption, the same percentage predicted by nuclear plants. Italian politicians don’t understand that change our mind investing in efficiency and renewable energies is possible from now and with lower costs.

Italy Returns to Nuclear Power While the World Looks Ahead : EcoWorldly

July 11, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | EUROPE, politics