The second circumnavigation of the island has officially begun. It starts again where it all began. As if nothing had happened, as if the direction of Rome hadn't given up even for a moment the unhealthy idea of surrounding the Sardinian sea with steel skyscrapers ready to soar over 300 meters in height. The last ambush is a poker of wind turbines to make common sense shiver, to alarm every law of the sea.

Shovels, missiles & poverty

Yet, once again, in the sea of Sulcis, poor and left with impunity without a future, and that of Teulada, devastated by bombs and missiles, an invasion of wind energy is planned to make you shiver. Hundreds of gigantic blades, the largest in the world, capable of budding and doubling on the same pylon, to strengthen the devastating impact on the skyline of the coast. To these gentlemen who came from overseas, crossing the Alps and fjords, the idea did not even cross the antechamber of the brain that this land in the middle of the sea, called Sardinia, was inhabited and that the horizon of the coast was not property of whoever arrives and places any monster he likes as he pleases. Instead, for Swedes and Germans, custodians of four new wind farm projects in the middle of the sea, there is no limit to the greed of multimillion-dollar incentives, to be consumed to the detriment of the landscape of the land that belonged to the Shardana. Businesses to be consumed with both hands on those Pnrr funds assigned to Italy to create development are relentlessly chasing after. They, who really didn't want to give that money, will now, through a thousand State prebends, try to recover everything and more, with wind bonuses and capital account contributions for those who will gut the Sardinian coastal landscape with blows of 310-metre propellers diameter. Basically the size of three football fields that rotate in the sky in the shape of paddles.

18 offshore projects

The work of grabbing the Sardinian sea seemed to have ended with the presentation of no less than 14 offshore wind projects, capable of attacking every side of it, from the Costa Smeralda to the Coral Riviera, passing through S'Archittu and Bosa, crossing the sea north of the 'Ogliastra up to Olbia, to be consumed on the Golfo degli Angeli passing through Pula, Domus de Maria, Teulada, up to the islands of Carloforte and Sant'Antioco, forever scarring the scenery of the Pan di Zucchero. And instead, no. The port authority of Cagliari publishes them in series, in one fell swoop. No procedural premise, as if even the admirals were tired of this invasion of the sea. These projects, the latest arrivals, have been thrown into the computer server only to say that they are officially published. The men dressed in white, with the code of the sea always at hand, no longer know how to write it. After all, they said it again and again in Rome and its surroundings: presenting projects everywhere, without criteria, without rules, means generating an indecent Far West, with a degradation not only of the public administration forced to examine indefinite projects, but above all with a aggression against the "sea" property that is unprecedented for an island region.

Master Swedes

The Swedes don't care about Avenhexicon, an equal joint venture between a company from Bologna that claims to be a developer of renewable plants and the company Hexicon, the giant of two-blade blades, a unique technology of its kind that provides for the doubling of those monsters in the middle at sea, with both paddles attached to a single float. Colossal dimensions, 177 meters in height for the central pylon and 310 meters in diameter for the rotating blades. An overall height of 332 metres, the highest currently planned in Sardinia, if one excludes those hypothesized in the Costa Smeralda which could reach 380 metres. The first Swedish project is a whole program: "Sardinia South 1". They positioned it in the stretch of sea in front of Capo Teulada and Isola del Toro. The synthesis is 32 triangular-shaped floating foundation structures anchored to the seabed, each equipped with 2 wind turbines, each with a nominal power of 25 megawatts.

Sardinia 1&2

The final total number is 64 blades for a total plant power of 1,600 megawatts, to be clearer, three times as much as the Portovesme plant. A plant that alone would far exceed the electric power supplied to the island's thermoelectric plants. It is a pity that absolutely nothing will remain of that energy in Sardinia, as with all other wind farms. Of course, they planned 120 km of submarine cable to get it to the mouth of the Cagliari pond, in the "Torre della Quarta Regia" locality, and subsequently, with terrestrial cable ducts up to the Selargius electrical station. If all that electricity really were to arrive at the Quartucciu entrance, they would be forced to move Quartu as well. With a request from other landlords, Swedes & company, they ask for the concession of that infinite expanse of water for 30 years, then we'll see. The lords of the fjords are not original in the names, but the nominal scheme betrays the conception of Sardinia as an "electric battery" without dignity, like a serial number to be reserved for business without particular value: "Sardinia South 2". Only the number changes, the location remains: South Sardinia. In this case the number of wind turbines changes: they will be 15 floating structures, for a total of 30 blades, with an expected power of 750 megawatts. The partners and even the connections do not change, from the sea of Teulada the submarine cables will reach Molentargius and then, among flamingos and salt marshes, towards Selargius.

2,350 megawatts

With the doubling of the project, the Swedes would arrive, if ever some madmen were to authorize them, to a total of 2350 megawatts, enough energy for more than two million inhabitants, as if the demographic index of Sardinia had reversed course, assuming the African parenting trend . The return invasion, the second wave, however, is not over. The two projects with the Swedish flag are joined by two others, this time of German origin with the entry into the field of the lead partner Bay/Wa, a giant in the energy sector based in Munich. Born to support German agriculture, the multinational is now betting everything on construction and energy. Its scheme of action does not change, a pair of wind farms of smaller dimensions compared to the Swedes, but still of very significant dimensions. Each offshore plant will have more than 500 megawatts, for over 1,000 megawatts of power, as much as the Porto Torres and Portovesme plants combined. Their denomination is by cardinal points. To be surrounded is the island of Carloforte. The projects declare it in the titles: San Pietro Nord and San Pietro Sud.

Goodbye bluefin tuna

In other words, bluefin tuna will have no escape here. The blades, this time without doubling, will be 68 in all, with a planned height of 268 metres. In the declarations in the minutes, even the Germans seem not to be very familiar with the reality of the places. In the project they write that the two plants will produce energy for at least one million one hundred thousand inhabitants. Adding up all the offshore projects presented to date, including the last four, we would produce electricity for over 20 million inhabitants. The madness of offshore wind power in the sea of the island becomes day after day an unprecedented speculative operation, all played on the head of Sardinia and the Sardinians. And many continue to witness the havoc in silence.

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