As Black-outs still occur paralyzing entire Nations, this emphasizes how necessary it is now to insist on greater research applied to renewable sources of alternative energy. Considering the recent energy black-out in USA and in Great Britain, this kind of research field is important non only for Italy but for the whole world,.
“My Company, Ponte di Archimede, has been for years engaged in studying the exploitation of marine currents with the Enermar system – asserts the Neapolitan ship owner Elio Matacena, President of the “Ponte di Archimede” Company (an applied research Company in the energy field and innovative technology fields). Two years ago we installed the Kobold in the Messina Straits, the world’s first turbine prototype planned to obtain pure and renewable energy from the sea.
In our web site page www.pontediarchimede.it you may learn about our research’s state of the art, of which the United Nations have been interested in. In fact the UN has the intention of supporting it, through the UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization),also in the Pacific. This region is rich in very strong currents and archipelagos – among which there are those of the Philippines and of Indonesia – consisting in dozens of islands”.
“Also the People’s Republic of China – Matacena continues – looks upon our Enermar system with interest. In fact together with the Chinese Academy of Science we are designing its application in the Zhoushan Archipelago. This will be one of the main topics of this evening’s meeting in Rome with the Minister of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Prof. Xu Guanhua, to whom will be rewarded a gold medal for scientific merit. The medal granted by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, will be handed over to him tomorrow by the Italian Minister of Education and Scientific Research, Letizia Moratti.
|
