The Milanese will be happy: for once the city is not the most smoggy capital in Italy. It is surpassed by Florence which does not have many competitors in terms of nitrogen dioxide, ozone and particulate matter. The Florentines, unlike the Milanese, will be a little depressed. They will spend money to raise them 1.4 million euros for a 5-year project managed by the Biorobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
It is blessed money, in the name of the most illustrious fellow citizen Dante Alighieri, who would never have imagined a project conceived in Pisa to save his Florence. He wanted it flooded and destroyed by the Arno (so that he annihilates every person in you!). But anyway, the project is called Dante and is financed by the European Research Council (ERC).
The anti-smog game is being played entirely on the left between two of the most popular mayors of the Democratic Party: Giuseppe Sala And Dario Nardella. In Milan, environmental issues are much studied and discussed, but with little profit. “The air has improved but not enough” says Sala. “In Florence we will create the Green Shield” repeats Nardella. Between Palazzo Vecchio, the Fortezza dal Baso and the Arno rivers, did the situation become so serious without anyone realizing it? “We chose to leave from Florence – he explains Giovanni Stabile project coordinator – because the Tuscan capital has a particularly unfavorable meteorological context which leads to an accumulation of air pollution with recorded values of nitrogen dioxide, ozone and particulate matter”. Combined in a single package, all these poisons exceed the legal objectives to be achieved by 2030, so we need to move quickly.
Science and sarcasm come together in a single environmentalist plan. The health of the Florentines will improve at the hands of scientists arriving from Pisa? To jump on the chair, because of the expulsion of the Florentines from Pisa in 1509 and 15 years of wars. Of Dante, unaware of everything, of his name in the hands of the most prestigious school in Pisa “reproach of the people“, of the city hostile to him, the Florentines to curb environmental depression will be able to remember that “Enjoy, Fiorenza, since you are so great that you beat your wings across sea and land, and your name spreads throughout hell!“. Scientifically, the microclimate will improve thanks to the creation of a digital model in urban environments. “Possible applications include urban air pollution, heat island modeling, wind loads on buildings,” explain the technicians who, with the name of the project, end a historic hostility between two wonderful cities. Or not ?
