Systematic broad-based opposition blocks nuclear, gas and even wind and solar farms risks condemning Italy to the highest electricity tariffs in the world.
The left accuses the government of doing nothing for the growth of GDP and even less to lower bill prices. Improvements are obviously always desirable and the current majority, in the year remaining before the vote, would do well to focus on economic issues.
However, what would happen to GDP and bills if a Palazzo Chigi instead of Giorgia Meloni was there an exponent of the wide field? It’s a question I asked myself yesterday, after that Adv, PD And 5 stars they voted against the plan to open nuclear power plants. Angelo Bonelli of the Greens defined Thursday’s event as a “black page of democracy”, because it would have been made “waste paper of the will of the Italians”. Chiara Bragagroup leader in the Chamber of Deputies Democratic Partyinstead said that the yes to nuclear power “is a bluff”, because it will take 15 or 20 years to build the new plants. Given that if we postpone it every time, perhaps it will take up to 50 years to guarantee low-cost energy, it turns out that less than 10 will be enough to complete and therefore the first power plants could come into operation in 2035.
The great energy veto: why the left says no to any form of energy
However, from a left that aspires to govern, and therefore to grow the GDP and lower the price of bills, I would expect that if it says no to nuclear power, it will then say yes to something else. That is, once one energy source has been discarded, another one has to be proposed. But no. While it rejects outright even the idea of creating energy from fission, when decision time comes the broad camp also rejects the idea of wind or solar farms. Where they administer, the comrades are ready to set up barricades if they see even the shadow of a mill connected to the electricity grid and at the same time reject any idea of photovoltaic expanses. That is, they complain if the bill goes up and denounce the difficulties encountered by companies that export, but they say no to anything that could allow them to lower the price of electricity and consequently also reduce costs to be more competitive. Here is the paradox of the left of struggle and government: it does not want nuclear power, indeed it threatens a referendum to prevent the installation of even a single reactor, but then it is in the front row when it comes to complaining if the domestic product languishes and electricity is expensive.
The sabotage syndrome and the systematic rejection of alternatives
Those involved in politics are not expected to know how to imagine the future, but at least not to hinder it. But no, the comrades have always been against a future that is not theirs: whether it is motorways, railway lines, color TV or simply nuclear power plants, they oppose it every time. They don’t indicate an alternative, they limit themselves to sabotaging that of others with generic and inconclusive speeches.
Are the reactors not working well? And how should we produce the energy we need to run businesses and our homes? Coal-fired power plants cannot be built because they pollute, hydroelectric power plants cannot even be talked about after the Vajont disaster, gas is a fossil source and is therefore best avoided, wind turbines and solar panels ruin the environment. So? What do we do? How do we keep Italy lit? The answers at this point become vague. We talk generically about renewables, but without going into detail about where to make them, much less the size of a photovoltaic field or an expanse of wind towers. The reality is that the left blames the center-right for both high bills and slow growth, but it is responsible for both. What would have happened in Italy if it had not opposed nuclear power in the last 40 years? That we would have lower bills and that the cost of energy would not limit exports and make companies flee. In this regard, Bonelli and his companions reply by raising the fear of the escape of radioactive material. But the Japanwhere an accident was also recorded at the power plant Fukushima due to a tsunami, he is planning 19 power plants and he certainly wasn’t scared by one Bonelli with almond-shaped eyes.
The obstacle to technological development and the future of Artificial Intelligence
The truth is that if this left went to government, Italy would be doomed. Just think of the words of the governor of Bank of Italywho the other day spoke about the great challenge ofArtificial intelligence and the need to invest in an Italian AI. And how will we make the brains needed to power large data centers work? With wind turbines, assuming or not granting that the comrades allowed their installation? Or with panels on the roof? A single advanced computing hub requires more than one Gigawatt of power, which is the equivalent of the power needed to power 850,000 homes. But without nuclear power, without gas, without coal and without even wind turbines, because the governor of Sardinia is against it, Italy would not be able to power its data centers and Italians would pay the most expensive bill in the world. And goodbye GDP growth.
