The inhabitants of all the islands in the Asiatic South-East archipelagos have received directly from the sea a traumatic catastrophe named Tsunami. Nevertheless all the reserve of energy enclosed in marine current maybe the answer to the energy demand of the population belonging to the Republic of Indonesia. In fact Indonesia was severely hit last 26 December by the earth-seaquake, together with the Archipelagos of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of the Philippines.
To this vast territory of islands and straits, UNIDO – United Nations Industrial Development Organization – has dedicated a project which employs an advanced Italian technology patented by PdA, chaired by Elio Matacena. An endurable development and protecting environment are the two main factors of the after Tsunami effort of reconstruction and also fundamental for the UNIDO project. The project gives attention to the needs of the poor which survive thanks to agriculture, fishing and a rudimental tourism. So there is a necessity to reach and draw a source of renewable, clean energy, free of charge which would make a change in the quality of life in those territories.
A pilot application has began from the meeting held in the Hilton Hotel in Giakarta, promoted and organized by UNIDO together with the governments of the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia and the Philippines. It was the first of a series of four meetings turned to develop an experimental project for the dissemination of the Kobold turbine, producer of energy though marine currents. The following meetings will take place by the end of summer 2005. They have been scheduled in Beijing, Manila and Messina.
At the meeting held in Indonesia, among the others, a number of personalities participated at the top of UNIDO and Ministries of the Universities of the involved nations. During the first day of work the following participated: Madame Dan Liang, director of the UNIDO Investment and Technology Branch; Dr. Ashwin Sasongko, under-secretary of Research and Technology of the Indonesia Republic, Madame Wang Weili, general director of the Ministry of Trade of the People’s Republic of China and H.E. Francesco Maria Greco, Italian Ambassador in Indonesia.
“It’s very significant – Elio Matacena said – that Italy is able to export advanced technology which corresponds to the needs of a type of territory where development and increase in the quality of life are an utopia, because there is a lack of available energy resources”.
UNIDO has understood the amount of great potential inherent in our technology, triggering a virtuous circle which involves three Asian governments, among which there is the People’s Republic of China, that’s to say the largest nation in the world. The next step – Matacena concludes – concerns a recruitment of resources which should finance the set-up of Kobold farms. Such farms are able to produce a energy system at the service of single island populations. Those islands would consequently conquer independency thanks to the energy supply, whereas currently the energy supply is obtained through polluting electricity-generating groups.
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