"Seeing the consensus around the choice of Lula as the seat of the Einstein Telescope grow even more, and in an ever stronger and more cohesive way, makes us proud and instills in us hope and confidence in the final outcome. By hosting the Einstein Telescope, Sardinia would conquer an absolute prominent role in the international scientific world, welcoming scientists from all over the world, with evident and important repercussions on the regional territory both in economic and employment, as well as technological and industrial terms. the results of the procedure ".
Thus the President of the Region, Christian Solinas, commenting with satisfaction the favorable indication for the choice of Lula also by the Culture and Education Commission of the Senate, from which a clear indication is addressed to the Government so that the project is included within the Plan of recovery and resilience (Pnrr), thus following the path traced by the Finance Commission of Palazzo Madama which had expressed the same orientation.
"Einstein Telescope represents a great scientific and technological challenge for Italy. The third generation gravitational wave telescope project is an example of the sustainable development linked to innovation that the Region of Sardinia supports, and for which it is a candidate in the field international ", continued Solinas, who also during the meeting on 7 April at Villa Devoto with the Minister for Technological Innovation and the Digital Transition Vittorio Colao had exposed the progress of Sardinia's candidacy, reiterating how the island can be the ideal place to host high-tech projects.
In competition with the Sardinian site is that of Limburg , on the border between Holland, Belgium and Germany, but “the area - explain the Region - does not have physical and environmental characteristics comparable with Sardinia. The equipment must in fact be built in regions with low seismic noise both of natural origin (seismic activity) and anthropic (human, industrial, production, transport activities). Not only that: the geology of the site must allow a stable construction of large caves, not very subject to the presence of underground water. These characteristics make Sardinia the optimal region for the realization of ET and the Sos Enattos site is optimal. Not surprisingly, the commitment made by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research to host this new infrastructure in Sardinia is supported by prestigious research bodies and national universities ".
The new gravitational detector foresees an infrastructural investment of at least one and a half billion euros, which will involve over 2,500 people in the construction phase, and in the long term it will be a major scientific pole of international value, destined to attract resources to invest at the frontier of science. and technology.
(Unioneonline / vl)