Once upon a time, from those slits-embrasures set in the white granite cliffs of Is Mortorius, on the coast of Quartu, large telescopes and precision rangefinders looked out. They aimed at targets and enemy distances, long and deep eyes to spot all those who looked out over the Golfo degli Angeli. In '43, Second World War, from those positions they fired at Safari, the English submarine that looked out in front of Cala Regina. No shots were spared even against the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the twin-engine fighter planes in service with the powerful American air force.
Sea Outpost
The "Carlo Faldi" Battery, built in 1936 on the ruins of the ancient Tonnara, was one of the "Fronte a mare" outposts of Cagliari, a lookout against raiders and invaders. Now it is a ruin, close to the more Nuragic lookout located further upstream, that nuraghe Diana that dominated and controlled that proscenium for millennia. Getting there is not impossible, just take the tortuous, but still panoramic, road that traces the coast from Cagliari to Villasimius. The abandoned artifacts mark the degradation of a territory as exclusive as it is abandoned to itself, as if the scenario that overlooks did not deserve a mention.
Defenses & Ruins
If you climb to the highest point of the ancient Batteria you understand the reason for that observation point: the horizon projects the gaze along the entire "bay" that everyone has always called the Gulf of Angels. Now that the defenses have been extinguished by history, on that stretch of sea, however, the new "invaders" are reappearing, ready to occupy without any resistance that body of water that goes from Is Mortorius to Poetto, from Giorgino to Nora, from Santa Margherita di Pula to Chia, capable of sticking into that sea the beauty of 218 steel skyscrapers, 300 meters high and potentially up to 380, almost like a hundred floors in height. A devastation not only announced, but pursued with blows of projects and companies, all put in place with the aim of making the slot machine of the billion-dollar incentives at stake on offshore wind power spin out of all proportion.
Slippers & Illusions
Those who live between illusions and slippers whisper that they won't all make it, that perhaps only one or two will be able to succeed. In reality, just one would be enough to devastate the entire body of water, so imagine if those gentlemen who came from far away will give up their weapons in favor of an enemy competitor. The identity card of the contenders, moreover, suggests that they are not new guests at the great party of Italian renewables.
Jp Morgan's Malagrazia
The main protagonist of this climb to the Gulf of Angels is the American giant JP Morgan, the first banking group in the States, a global financial power that has always known where to knock and how to demand. Their plan is told in two cyclopean projects with eloquent names: Nora 1 and Nora 2. Not a random name. The spokesman for the American bankers in Sardinia, a Sardinian lent to the American verb, with the elegance of a hippopotamus in a china shop, in front of the Mayor and city councilors of Pula, in recent months used the candor of a runaway girl: "it's about two plants, in short, here in front of you, essentially". Words carved in a recording that does not let even a hiss escape of that confession with the microphones turned on. Jp Morgan's plans had no chance of convincing anyone, but after that enlightening "confession" the communication collapse of the big bank could have, perhaps should have, suggested the withdrawal of projects and sent. Instead no, they persist and push: the first project aims to stick, in sight Is Mortorius, 53 wind turbines for 795 megawatts of power, capable of satisfying 700 thousand domestic users, the second 40 blades for 600 megawatts for 500 thousand users.
The king of the highways
On that horizon, busy with ships and sailors, fishermen and seafarers, however, the Americans are not alone in betting on the devastation of that stretch of coast. Two even more invasive projects have been presented by the company headed by Carlo Toto's Holding, the concessionaire of the Abruzzo highways. Its plans speak of two offshore plants, again with names that are not exactly original, but significant: "Sardegna 1" with 37 turbines and a power of 555 megawatts and "Sardegna 2" with 55 blades and a power of 825 megawatts. Finally, on the sea front appears Repower, a Swiss giant that in the Golfo degli Angeli has planned to "skewer" 33 cyclopean blades for 495 megawatts of power.
Cable leash
The picture is quickly made: 218 blades in total hurled on the Golfo degli Angeli alone to produce 3270 megawatts, enough energy for almost three million users. The State of Rome has thought of everything. Between Terra Mala and Is Mortorius they aim to reach the Terna cable-leash, the Tyrrhenian Link, the one designed to transport the energy produced by the devastation of the Sardinian sea to Sicily and Campania.
