What is THOR? is more than an incinerator, a miraculous invention of the CNR .
In a series of contacts at the time by myself with Dr. Paolo Plescia of the National Research Council (CNR), a prodigious inventor of undifferentiated garbage recycling plant , The scientist assured me that his "device" in its experimental phase in Messina, was placed on the market within the year, namely in 2008. E 'likely that the news did not like the poppies of incinerators, or perhaps because of its simplicity and low cost / income and even the media because, after the interest shown in the first months of that year, THOR has fallen under a blanket of an inexplicable silence.
THOR stands for "Total House Waste Recycling", or complete recycling of household waste, a real hog waste. This is a radically innovative technology, designed developed and made entirely in Italy by the team of Plescia ISMN-CNR (Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Materials) in collaboration with a private company ASSING of Rome. According to the CNR processing steps undergone by the refusal of the order are: crushing and screening, magnetic separation of ferrous, non ferrous metals separation of eddy current, separation of aggregates by dividing ballistic and eventual separation enrichment of a fraction "compounds" made from rubber, PVC and other plastics heavy grinding combustible fraction of waste at a mill micronized to achieve sub-millimeter dimensions and then refining fuel by ciclonatura. A concrete Esmie its capabilities? Leggiamolo in a note dated January 2008 CNR:
"an urban area of \u200b\u200b5,000 inhabitants produces around 50 tonnes of solid waste per day - inform researchers - with these, Thor, enables to obtain a daily average of 30 tons of fuel, 3 tons of glass, 2 tons of ferrous and non ferrous metals and a tonne of aggregates, and in which 'also includes the chlorine-rich fraction of the waste that is separated to avoid contaminating the fuel. " "The rest of the waste 'water that is expelled as vapor during the process of micronization. The product that comes from Thor and 'sterilized' cause the pressures that are generated in the mill, from 8000 to 15000 atmospheres, determine the complete destruction of bacterial flora and, furthermore, does not produce odors from fermentation remains inert from a biological standpoint, but fuel.
The result of this treatment is the production of micro-crushed by a fuel calorific value comparable to that of coal . During this phase, the water contained in the waste evaporates evaporates even as much of the chlorine (responsible for the formation of dioxins during combustion) in the form of hydrochloric acid which in turn reprecipitates CaCl2 or NaCl salt forms that are taken away from the fuel cycle by nature. This fuel is product in the form of powder which, pressed pellets and can be used in industrial furnaces.
By now the problem is chronic refuse emergency in Campania. Becomes increasingly complex and difficult to solve and nobody ever talked about THOR even in the event. "You run for cover, wipe the hundreds of loopholes left open by previous commissioners, before they accelerate the decay of the thousands of tonnes of rubbish strewn streets of Naples and its province - recently said Bertolaso \u200b\u200b- adding that it was necessary to face up to Crime. The latter, in viewing perspective running out a hearty source of income, setting stakes in the new political course and the resulting poisonous fumes of smoke, making it even more breathable air bell, but THOR never mentioned, not even a line.
Worried about the environmental situation in Campania, Silvio Berlusconi has returned several times to Naples Bertolaso \u200b\u200band it does after each Council of Ministers. But what is surprising was his lack of courage. While it shows, quite rightly, the muscles with military garrisons, it does not take into account, even at the outset, the adoption of this innovative system, much celebrated by the Board of Research.
According to the calculations of experts, as Naples and the province produce 7 thousand tons of garbage daily and THOR in "millstone" 8 hour ", just 36 THOR and a charge of € 72 million to say goodbye to the production of" junk "daily. While grinding with 100 THOR could disappear in just one year to 7 million tonnes of "eco-bales" accumulated over the decades. On balance, at a cost of thirty-three times lower, THOR is also able to get five times more energy per pound compared to a common incinerator that many food storage sites without central heating, separate waste collection, landfill and whatever ' more. In this regard, requested by signed if he had received any proposal from the Government, Paolo Plescia surprisingly answered me: "I do not think you want to have anything to do with politics, of whatever color it is, especially in Campania, where there is already a" floor waste ", which provides the only energy plants and planting. " It also declares (as it properly rejected the claim arising from his invention, according to the DDLS of February 10, 2005 No. 3) has "already given the use of his [creature] in private hands because plants are made for special waste , to entrust to private companies. "
The responses of the scientist, there is no indication of whether the plant has been sold and to whom. In the month of February (February 14, 2008) a press release signed by CEO of ASSING SpA, Renato de Silva, reported that if no other solution was found in the massacre Campano, "ASSING SPA is available to bring its know-how which possible contribution to the solution of the problem emerged.
We are curious to know what has happened since then. Why Plescia and De Silva were secluded in the not to publish their "creation"? What is a failure, or that something else is hiding behind the scenes? Unless, as stated Plescia, their target market have special waste (where the amount to be addressed are children and disposal rates are higher than urban), encompass the investment in less time and with less waste! And maybe the patent sold to some foreign company? in this case would be a sign of cynicism. If so, let it be said publicly.
waiting to know the reason for this unusual black-out, we can only hope that THOR, fruit dell'indiscusso Italian genius, both as first considered by the mainstream media and institutions , at least to see her so much praised performance in the hope that it is able to solve the problem of urban solid waste in our country and redeem the shame that they have defiled its image in the world. It 's a risk that, like Naples, according to Eurispes, many Italian cities can not run, given the saturation of the next landfill and waste enormous speculation that, as a cash cow, feed corruption and cronyism of the worst kind anywhere problem presents itself.
Francis Pugliarello - reworked by the West.
en 30.05.2008 
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