San Marco D'Alunzio near Newfoundland in the province of Messina, CNR (National Research Council, an Italian public body of research that has had among its top executives in the past Nobel Prize in Physics Carlo Rubbia) is testing a new technology for the disposal of municipal solid waste. The system is called THOR, as the Scandinavian god, and is a technology under study for 10 years and available for 5 years, with its patented machinery, whose author is the Professor. Paolo Plescia CNR. Unsorted municipal solid waste bins to be clear-those-are pulverized and reduced to particles of approx. ten thousandths of a millimeter and differentiated directly from the resulting glass, metal, toxic waste and, for three-fifths from a fuel calorific value equal to the best quality of coal, used to feed the steam boilers for heating. The system during the treatment process is able to break the dangerous molecules (such as anthracene, polychlorinated biphenyl-PCB-etc.). Also obtained from the fuel can further obtain an oil fuel used in diesel engines that use biodiesel fuel (rapeseed oil and the like). The new system avoids the storage of mixed waste and therefore does not need landfills. Does not emit gases or odor but only water vapor. It can also be mounted on trucks or ships allocated wherever there is an emergency and requires a small area of \u200b\u200bca. 300 sq .- a square of 17 m. x 17 m - for its exercise. It is nourished by the same fuel product (which costs less than half of any fuel produced by the existing waste treatment facilities). A plant of its kind for a city of 20,000, it costs less than 2 million Euros per tonne of fuel obtained coast ca. 40 Euro. Such a system, again if it were all verified as they are doing in the pilot plant operating in Sicily, could do without the collection and its costs. The same waste collection from the bins and transport to the facility would slaughter THOR geometric costs. Of course not talk about anyone. And when I say no I mean of Bruno Vespa, the Enrico Mentana, newspapers, radio news and news. Just a few quick flashes, fast, fast, so that no one can think about and understand that if it's all true, we are facing one of the inventions of the century could solve energy and environmental problems for a country like ours are very difficult and serious. Without forgetting that we are also faced with a completely Italian technology with prospects for the world market and its impact on employment unimaginable. But something tells me that the bought and paid for from abroad few years. In the final Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio had to go abroad for industrial development on its patent. One is reminded also that Meucci invented the telephone before Bell. It is also in mind that have been contracted out to the usual suspects billion for the construction of treatment plants and waste incinerators for. Perhaps for this reason that the Italian public and private publishers who happens to be controlled by the usual suspects, always the same, does not speak. It's not good losing a multibillion-dollar private business and earn in terms of environmental protection, health and economy, all things collective, public, not private. The market is the market. Yet the mayors who are on tenterhooks for the issue of waste management in Sicily, should throw an eye to these issues. And maybe a trip to Newfoundland and a few phone calls (Paolo Plescia, Institute of Studies on Nanostructured Materials (ISMN) CNR, tel. 06.90672826, e-mail: @ paolo.plescia ismn.cnr.it, p.plescia @ assing.it ) could clarify the ideas. And then who knows. 
