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Giovanni Wine
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Torino, Italian Wine Capital
May 2002
time: 06:31
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Yerstuday night at about 3:30 when I was in the disco the power went down. At first we all waited a few minutes and then we all went out of the club (strangely enough there were no beating and pushing, despite the fact we were about 1-2 thousand yound teenagers trying to get out a dark disco)
The disco is not exactly in the city but is a little out on one of the many hills sorrounding Torino.
When I was finally out I saw the whole city dark... you could tell there was a city only because there was a huge river of car running around the streets.
Me and my friends immediatly go in my car, I bring them home and then go home myself.
This morning I wake up and discover that the whole of Italy (with the exception of Sardinia) were without electricity... and some regions in the south still are.
The TV news said there was a malfunction in the connection between Italy and France (Italy buys about 20% of its electricity from France) and when they tried to activate a second line that was meant to serve as a back up, that line went down again.
Power was up here at around 7 that means we had only about 3-4 hours of black out, but some cities are still without electricity (and some other even without water because of the fact that the pumps and the "things that clean water" are not working).
Always according to the TV News there were no problems and no alarms caused by the black-out
As always the TV said that we should try not to use too much electricity, stop using this, stop using that etc etc... But now I wonder, since the average Italian already daily about half the electricity that a Swede use (they said it on TV), since we are buying 20% of our electicity from France (and this means that whenever there will be problems in France, it will be Italy to be in the dark).
Why can't we just build some other plants?  
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Zopperoni
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Ah, you can blame the French. Good.
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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:31
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28th September 2003 04:43 PM
1 hour, 42 minutes ago
BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) - Five people were injured and two houses gutted when a meteorite crashed to earth in eastern India after panicking hundreds of villagers as it shot across the sky, reports and residents said.
The meteorite crashed Saturday in a remote village near the Bay of Bengal in the state of Orissa, local media said, adding five people were sent to hospital with injuries.
The provincial revenue minister, Biswa Bhusan Harichandan, said authorities were waiting for more concrete information about damages or casualties.
The meteorite lit up the sky and caused windows to rattle as passed overhead, sending hundreds of people rushing outside unsure what was happening, a resident of Kendrapara town said by telephone.
"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight everywhere," he said.
Scientists plan to study the remains of the meteorite.
"Such celestial occurrences are common in space but not visible to the naked eye. This is a rare phenomenon in this region," said Jaydev Kar, a scientist at the Pathani Samant Planetorium in Orissa's capital Bhubaneswar.
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Giovanni Wine
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Torino, Italian Wine Capital
May 2002
time: 06:31
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Originally posted by Ned
I suppose the enemy of construction of new power plants and transmission lines in Italy are the leftist parties, just as they are here in the United States. A large part of the anger here in California against Davis is because everyone here knows the left is the cause of our power problems. One can keep up this anti-capitalist program only so long. In the end, the infrastructure will collapse. It looks like Europe is now feeling the effects of leftist politics. |
Uhm... I should tell this to Berlusconi, maybe he will give me a place in his cabinet as minister of... ehr... boh?
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk
How's the power situation there now? |
Power is back everywhere. I think the emergency was handled pretty good this time.
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Originally posted by VetLegion
And what plants would Italy build? Nobody wants more nukes, coal is bad for tourism, oil is probably out of the question because of oscilating price... this leaves natural gas which is much better used for home use. |
Problem is, we can not even build new plants. Because ENEL, which is our biggest electricity company can not build new ones, or it would break the 50% rule set by the anti-trust laws, and the other companies don't have the resources to build them. So we are forced to import electricity from France, we import something like 20% of our total energy (and that's way too much, especially considering that the 2nd largest importer: Spain, only imports 3% of its total electricity).
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Originally posted by alva
Ah wait, he's emperor allready isn't he |
*Giovanni wine sees Berlusconi on TV 
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