Saturday, May 31, 2008

Quotes To Use At A Funeral

TREMONTI: Launch of the privatization of Alitalia

The Board of the Alitalia's June 3 will examine 'the "correspondence with Intesa-Sanpaolo."
This was announced by Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, during the press conference following the Council of Ministers in which 'was approved the decree which reactivates privatization procedures of the national airline.
"What will 'Understanding in addition to the basic function of advisor depends on the choices Banca Intesa. Playing a role or even outside investor depends on Banca Intesa, we are interested that there are investors. The CDM has noted in a statement from Alitalia, which informs that you have established contact with Intesa-Sanpaolo. Informs us of a match which turned into points by the Understanding availability 'to evaluate viable solutions to resolve the current crisis, identifying the social actors interested in partedipare the rehabilitation, revitalization and development of Alitalia . The role of 'bank, said Tremonti, ' and 'the experience for the determination of the components of a counseling to seek a possible solution and contribute to its eventual realization . "Given this statement, the Minister continued," the CDM after having approved the rule on the privatization process has seen fit to adopt a resolution by which Intesa is identified as the subject which may 'seek to promote and offer the market by one or more' subjects and contain the possibility 'of privatization .


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Saturday, May 24, 2008

My Wife Wants To Have A Black Baby

In memory of a great man ...

Friday, May 23, 2008

Can Herpes Be On Your Chest

... And why not solar?

The health of the planet has become a story that every day affects our daily lives. The air we breathe becomes less clean, disease increase exponentially pollution and climate suffers so much harassment that the seasons are absorbed with each other, decrease or stretched in a way that had never in living memory seen. We do not know how long we will be able to abuse the planet in this way. Of course, we know that this time is less and less. If no measures are responsible for the damage will be catastrophic and destructive for all. Just think of energy - one of the main questions. But we must consider the existence inexhaustible source of energy. The first source of energy within the reach of everyone, we all got into the damn car after leaving it parked at the station a few hours, and solar. The Sun, in our area, gives us an average of 3,400 Wh / sqm / day (source: JRC Ispra), which means we receive kilovattora 3.4 per square meter. Not bad, right? To understand how to use this gift of God we have to do a little reflection: solar thermal and solar photovoltaic? The so-called "solar thermal" or better: solar thermal absorber exploits the properties of a black surface (and dull) to transform into thermal energy from sunlight. Most of this energy is provided by infrared, not visible to the human eye. Used to produce hot water and is used mainly to heat the domestic hot water (shower or pool, for those who have it) or for heating, if the plant is particularly efficient type of floor; The solar PV instead exploits the unique ability of a material, the silicon to generate electrons when struck by light, and then allows you to produce electricity. Clearly the two systems, while using the same source, are completely different both in terms of results and cost: in fact, if you can get to make a homemade solar panel with a few euros ( http://www.progettomeg.it / pannello.htm ), photovoltaics requires a technology that is not for everyone, and that is why we did not find right now desirable commercial development. Our good (in the sense Manzoni) rulers, however, that signed the Kyoto Protocol and do not know which way to turn to respect it, give us a piece of legislation important to the use of solar photovoltaics, MD 19/02/2007 - account Energy 2007 ( www.casarinnovabile.it ), which in a nutshell allows you to sell to the Manager Electrical Torture generated electricity at a price approximately double that of a free market and simultaneously draw the same amount of energy input in network. All this guaranteed for 20 years. With this system it pays to invest in 8 / 10 years and then begins to earn. The average lifespan of a panel of last generation is estimated at 30 years. Do you think that a system of three KW saves 2,600 kg of CO2 a year, also taking into account the CO2 released into the atmosphere to produce the panels themselves, the results are very positive (source: Ministry of Environment). For complete information know that the photovoltaic system costs about 7,500 euros per kilowatt of installed power. Solar thermal has not been forgotten, but was treated the poor relation, or rather treated as a system of energy saving (as a window with Double-glazed) and is entitled to any tax of 55% in three years, making it attractive to those who pay taxes ... Yes, I know that in Italy we all pay taxes, meant for those who can take advantage of those deductions!! It should however consider that if a PV system costs a minimum 12.000/15.000 euros, with about half the cost to install a hot water heating + that allows you to overcome almost completely the expenditure of fossil fuels, LPG or CNG or gasoline. For posterity will judge. Change is necessary, you can change! ... Even to the ethics of consumption!

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and return with the bridge over the Strait ...

http://digilander.libero.it/WinstonMontag/immblo_file/ponte1.jpg After 6 years of 'stop and go', accompanied by much controversy, the project for the bridge over the Strait of Messina again, as envisaged in the government program. It is, above all, a return to the past, to 2002 with the third Berlusconi government that was when he left the floor to the bridge over the Strait of Messina, where the company "Strait of Messina," continued the preliminary draft prepared in 1992. In 2005, the company Impregilo vincse the race as a general contractor. But in 2006, with the victory of the center and the advent of the Prodi government, the project tornnĂ² in the drawer of dreams: the bridge is not among the priorities' which, he explained Romano Prodi, had to be compatible with the resources available. What do you think of this? Do you support or not the bridge over the Strait?

Thursday, May 22, 2008

After Brazilian Wax Gallery

Scajola: build nuclear power plants. Realacci: too expensive

 Centrale nucleare

"Honoring mo with conviction and determination, the commitment of the premium r Silvio Berlusconi: By this term we will put the foundation stone for the construction of a new generation of nuclear power " . The commitment on behalf of the government is the Minister for Economic Development ico, Claudio Scajola, in his speech from the stage of the assembly of Confindustria Auditorium of Rome. For the neoministro " no longer put off the choice of nuclear ', despite the referendum that excluded her.
" Only those plants to provide energy to large-scale, low cost and environmentally ," now insists Scajola. And on this issue is in full harmony with the president of the industrialists who in his inaugural speech said just moments before: " is time to return to invest in nuclear energy sector, from which we have excluded more than twenty years ago decisions little emotional and thoughtful. " Arguing that abandoning nuclear power, " has increased our insecurity and dependence, has inflated the electricity bills for households and businesses . Marcegaglia for the issue of climate change and energy security as one of four strategic commitments for Italian companies. The first is safety, the second is for investment in research and innovation. Marcegaglia finally stated " full compliance with the rules, the fight for law and against the Mafia " as the fourth commitment.
But the government-axis for the nuclear industry does not like the Democratic Party. Shadow Minister for the Environment Ermete Realacci least ' can not turn to nuclear power because it is an expensive option and ideological. Article 18 is like, and we know how that battle ended '. Even as a businessman convinced
Pierluigi Bersani, colleague of Economics Realacci, the nuclear option should be considered, but only for the future, when it is convenient and safe, with a small amount of waste to be stored and disposed of. That is, when in order to acquire the fourth-generation nuclear technology. Only then, between 15-20 years - it is calculated - you can have a central safe and compatible. Bersani And just when he was still in the ministry has signed an agreement with the American Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman for scientific and technological cooperation between Italy and the U.S. on technology to all new and cleaner energy, hydrogen up - in fact - to nuclear power fourth generation.