We have come into Campania from Apulia. Campania is also hundreds of wind turbines on the hills. A landscape that is truly extraordinary. And here we see the pairing of the century: wind and energy, public and private. In the world, we are the biggest producers of those pylons that you can see there. The factory is at Priolo, where there’s also a Garrone refinery. Here you have today’s schizophrenia: oil and wind. Everything is put into this energy. It is the future. The oil barons throw themselves in. Moratti and Garrone throw themselves in. Enel and Eni throw themselves in. But their core business, the centre of their work, for 95%, will still be rotten oil. They are fossils. They throw themselves into these things because they get public financing. So it happens like this: what’s the meaning of “public” and what’s the meaning of “private”? The public provides the wind. The private puts up the installation. Now they risk doing what was done in Sardinia and in Sicily in these places. Where the public provides the wind and the income from the energy goes to a financier in Luxembourg. It goes to the great managers. The technology exists and it is extraordinary. There’s a need for politics to regulate these things. Don’t leave it in the hands of these private people who are falling over each other to clean themselves, to put on a new outfit of clothes. They also have financing there. This energy has to remain in the country and in the nearby countries. Here there will be a hundred installations, but here you can’t even see a watt of this energy, because it goes into a monopoly network that distributes it to other countries, to other places. This is what politics is about: to bring about a convergence between public and private. The public part provides the raw materials, the wind. By now, the Danes provide 20% of their energy like this. The Germans by the year 2030 will have removed all their generating stations. They are no longer creating nuclear power stations. So, is it better to have something like this or the Enel pylons? Is it better to have something like this or the nuclear or carbon-fuelled power stations? This is what you have to appreciate. Here we are immersed in a green landscape, in the future. These turbines are always providing energy because there is always wind. And they can even provide energy at night. When the factories are closed and don’t need energy. And where does the energy end up? Perhaps they sell it off. Like in Denmark, where most of the energy from wind turbines is created in the night. They create it at night and sell it off. So they thought something up. The circulation of cars in the city. Here I have an electric car. This car could be charged up at night with the energy produced by these installations, at night. Something marvellous happens in Denmark. AnIsraeli-Danish project to provide for the circulation of a hundred thousand electric cars, charged up at night with wind energy. And in the day, the energy not used by the cars, is given back to the supply company. An ambivalent relationship between those that give and those that receive energy. A car can give back the energy that it is not using in the daytime and thus eliminate the peaks of consumption in the city. It is extraordinary. Here there are no pollutants. There is nothing. Nothing is burned. By not burning anything, health becomes the most important thing. This is truly the future. Don’t be deceived. I have just come from the biggest solar energy exhibition in Europe at the Verona Fair – together with the one in Munich – it’s the biggest in Europe. And there were exhibitors of all sorts: wind, solar, geo-thermal. These sectors are doubling each year. There will be new jobs. Obama is aiming at 3 million new jobs by 2010-2015. I have seen this exhibition where there were all the exhibitors in the world, Chinese, Australian, Korean, Japanese ... Who was missing in that great exhibition? A politician. Not even one politician went. Where were our politicians, our fossil politicians, our corpses? Off to inaugurate an incinerator in Acerra with a technology of twenty years ago. They pressed a button and they all looked at each other because nothing started.
Good 168 and go ahead with the future!