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- Nel 1976: inizia la mia attività di consulente finanziario (a quei tempi l'attività di consulente finanziario era una novità per il panorama italiano...); la mia attività in questo settore negli anni mi porterà a rivestire tutti i ruoli compresi tra la semplice vendita di prodotti finanziari fino alla Direzione Vendite;
- Nel 1987: acquisto il mio primo modem a 300/bps e "navigo" per anni in Fidonet (rete di BBS nata nel 1984 ed attiva in Italia dal 1986...) "incrociando" interessanti contatti com moltissimi sysops... voglio ricordare tra gli altri Pietro Paolo Bianchi (2:331/307 TeleSibioc), Franco Carbucicchio (2:333/300 InterCity Hub Padova), Franco Rutigliano (2:335/1 Potenza).... c'e' qualcuno che ricorda le "nottate" di stimolanti discussioni nella conferenza "HUMAN.ITA"?
- Nel 1993: promuovo la nascita di AUDIES - l'"Associazione Nazionale per la lotta alla sordità e la tutela dei diritti degli audiolesi" - e per i successivi dieci anni continuero' ad esserne il suo presidente... (altra piccola ma non insignificante innovazione... di solito le associazioni di questo tipo infatti non sono quasi mai presiedute da persone che vivono in prima persona le menomazioni a favore delle quali fanno attività...). AUDIES Associazione ha promosso per anni la diffusione della conoscenza delle tecnologie di amplificazione a campo magnetico indotto per le esigenze di comunicazione degli audiolesi. Grazie ad AUDIES molti sistemi di amplificazione di questo tipo sono stati installati in scuole, cinema, teatri, uffici postali, case di riposo, auditorium pubblici, ecc...
- Nel 1994: faccio "esperimenti" con Mosaic e.... mi collego ad Internet!
- Nel 1995: nasce il mio primo sito; la "Mauro Magnani's Finance Area"! Recensito sia dal Financial Times (1996) come da "Milano Finanza" (1997). Creo "AUDIES Web!" uno dei primissimi siti nell'ambito del volontariato italiano;
- Nel 1996: responsabile tecnico dell'Internet Point "NETTuno" (CINECA) di Scorzè (VE); incarico mantenuto per circa quattro anni fino alla fine del 1999;
- Nel 1997: il 4 Aprile divento un "cyborg". Mi viene infatti attivato il chip dell'impianto cocleare che mi era stato inserito chirurgicamente a livello cocleare il mese precedente; divento testimone diretto della qualità dei risultati che si possono ottenere grazie alla continua innovazione che caratterizza il settore delle biotecnologie: "Cyborg 1.0"!
- Nel 1998: organizzo le mie prime aste di documentazione finanziaria d'epoca (scripofilia d'antiquariato) su eBay.com;
- Nel 2000: costituisco Finance Area Srl, prima startup per la vendita di scripofilia ed antiquariato cartaceo su Internet; l'esperienza terminera' nel 2005 con oltre 2000 clienti all'attivo "conquistati" uno ad uno esclusivamente tramite Rete;
- Nel 2004: aderisco a "LinkedIN" (i miei attuali 6000 contatti non sono casuali; provengono da quasi 5 anni d'uso della piattaforma);
- Nel 2006: aderisco a Facebook USA (ad oggi circa 2300 contatti "italiani"... ma - conteggiando i congelamenti di account subiti - i contatti effettivi sarebbero oltre 6000).
- Nel 2007: festeggio i miei primi vent'anni "telematici"!
- Nel 2008: promuovo l'avvio e lo sviluppo della comunità del social network "INNOVATORI" in qualità di Community Manager (oltre 800 i membri su piattaforma "Ning" ed oltre 1200 i membri su Facebook in pochi mesi...). Cyborg 2.0.
- Nel 2009: Socio Fondatore e Vice Presidente dell'Associazione INNOVATORI.
(http://innovatori.ning.com). Unisciti a noi!

- Dal 13/10/2004 sono utente di LinkedIN, puoi vedere il mio profilo a: http://www.linkedin.com/in/magnani
- Aggiungimi ai tuoi contatti di LinkedIN inviando un invito a "mauro.magnani@gmail.com"!

Consigli per l'innovazione:

1 - "Fare rete"! E' oggi piu' che mai necessario aggregare un buon numero di persone attorno all'idea di un nuovo network "delle persone ispirate dalla tecnologia che hanno fatto dell'innovazione la forza del loro pensiero".
2 - Siate curiosi, siate folli!
3 - Sfruttare le enormi potenzialità di comunicazione offerte da un utilizzo sinergico di Facebook e NING.
4 - Condividere conoscenza utilizzando siti come Twine.com e Posterous.com
5 - Di innovazione - a volte - se ne fa troppa a chiacchiere; sarebbe invece necessario cercare una sintesi ed iniziare a concretizzare di più... :-)

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At 1:28pm on July 12, 2009, Gabriele Cambi said…
Grazie Mauro dell'invito.... mi ha fatto molto piacere.. ciao caro Amico ;)
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At 11:17am on July 12, 2009, berardi luisa said…
Grazie dell'invito Mauro!
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At 8:35am on July 12, 2009, Simone Favaro said…
Ciao Mauro!!! :-) grazie mille!! sono anche vicino a casa tua!!
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At 6:30am on July 12, 2009, Eugenio Vacca said…
Grazie mille, Mauro.
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At 5:38am on July 12, 2009, Paolo Manzelli said…
Caro Mauro spero di avere da te e da innovatori della II° RIV.IND. una mano per sviluppare la strategia delle relazioni con l' Africa che ho iniziato a realizzare con la FAT ( FEDERAZIONE AFRICA IN TOSCANA) , denominata CO.MO.PA. ( Comitato Mondiale Pan-africanesimo) , di cui terremo un meeting c/o la Universita di Firenze il 22 SETT/2009
L' idea del COMOPA e' quella di Riconoscere la ORIGINE GENETICA COMUNE di TUTTE LE ETNIE UMANE DELLA TERRA , nel rispetto dei Diritti Umani per tutte le Diversita Biologiche e Culturali dei delle varie popolazioni del mondo.
Tale concezione supera i criteri di integrazione tra i popoli mentre valorizza la diversita' creativa, prodotta nel mondo alle varie etnie biologiche e dalle varie culture umane.
Grazie in anticipo per la collaborazone Un caro saluto Paolo Manzelli
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At 5:24am on July 12, 2009, Antonio Sfiligoj said…
Ciao Mauro,

ti segnalo i seguenti link veramente "rivoluzionari". Ho avuto modo di verificare con mano le prestazioni di una caldaia domestica che utilizza questa tecolnogia...

Ecco il link alla trasmissione CBS di cui abbiamo parlato:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n


la tecnologia di cui si parla nel video è stata implementata – tra gli altri – da www.superwavefusion.com . Sulla base di quanto ho avuto modo di vedere direttamente, i tempi di introduzione commerciale di un primo prodotto (una caldaia domestica) potrebbero essere molto vicini.

infine, segnalo che ENEA organizza a ottobre a Roma la seguente Conference on Condensed Matter and Nuclear Science (oct 5 – 9, 2009) http://iccf15.frascati.enea.it/

“The conference will have a scientific character and its primary target is the presentation, discussion and publications of results concerning the Fleischmann-Pons Effect.
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At 4:44am on July 12, 2009, Federico Bo said…
Grazie a te, Mauro.
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At 4:39am on July 12, 2009, Paolo Gagliardi said…
Grazie a te dell'invito, o rivoluzionario innovatore! ;-)
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At 3:28am on July 12, 2009, Diomira Cennamo said…
Bentrovato a te! Grazie dell'invito!
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At 12:54am on July 12, 2009, Federico Guerrini said…
Grazie dell'invito ;)
Ciao
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Third Industrial Revolution - Leading the Way to a Green Energy Era and a Hydrogen Economy

Com'è andata allora con il G-8? Analisi politica e analisi mediatica - LASTAMPA.it

Com'è andata allora con il G-8?
Analisi politica e analisi mediatica Le apparenze roboanti e la realtà assai modesta Cari amici. Ho aspettato che terminasse il G8, per fare una breve considerazione. Da due punti di vista.
Punto di vista mediatico. Mi pare che la copertura dei giornali sia stata abbastanza corretta, naturalmente rispetto alla linea editoriale di ciascun giornale, sia di opinione (Repubblica e Giornale, anzitutto) sia di informazione (Corsera e Stampa, anzitutto). Mi è sembrata più "scorretta" la linea dei tg, soprattutto del tg1: ma siamo sempre all'interno del disegno editoriale che li definisce e controlla. Ho trovato comunque molto interessante la pubblicazione (sulla Stampa, mi scuso ma non è compiacenza di parte) della intervista di Geldolf a B - finalmente un...giornalista che fa il suo mestiere, e sconcerta doverlo segnalare - e ancora la nuova severa lettera di Geldolf a B (sempre sulla Stampa), a conclusione del vertice. Sono stati due episodi fuori dal coro, e i giornali a questo dovrebbero servire.
Punto di vista delle politiche internazionali. E' stato il solito teatro di scenografie roboanti e di ben pochi risultati pratici. Tutto il gran daffare si è risolto in alcune formulazioni che ben poco hanno di concreto (quanti dei 20 miliardi di aiuto sono denaro reale, e non già stanziato ma mai consegnato? - e quanto del progetto sul clima avrà svolgimento reale, di fronte alle resistenze di Cina e India?). Piuttosto, le cose più interessanti sono venute nei risultati diciamo "politici": 1) la conferma del ruolo centrale di Obama e della nuova credibilità di potenza che ne ricevono gli Usa; 2) la conferma che il G-8 è morto e sepolto, e che occorre trovare una nuova dimensione d'intervento comprensiva delle nuove economie e dei nuovi centri di potere politico; 3) la conferma della crisi delle forme di contestazione ideologica, in un tempo nel quale le "democrazie senza democrazia" si vanno affermando come una delle identità di sistema più radicali ed efficaci. 

 

Green Power Takes Root in the Chinese Desert

Green Power Takes Root in the Chinese Desert

Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times

A series of projects is under construction to the southeast of Dunhuang, including one of six immense wind power projects now being built around China. Here, a worker measures the interior of a tower that will support a wind turbine. More Photos >

Published: July 2, 2009

DUNHUANG, China — As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electricity from renewable sources, China already has a similar requirement and is investing billions to remake itself into a green energy superpower.

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Dunhuang, an oasis deep in the Gobi Desert along the famed Silk Road, has become a center for China's drive to lead the world in wind and solar energy. More Photos »

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Through a combination of carrots and sticks, Beijing is starting to change how this country generates energy. Although coal remains the biggest energy source and is almost certain to stay that way, the rise of renewable energy, especially wind power, is helping to slow China’s steep growth in emissions of global warming gases.

While the House of Representatives approved a requirement last week that American utilities generate more of their power from renewable sources of energy, and the Senate will consider similar proposals over the summer, China imposed such a requirement almost two years ago.

This year China is on track to pass the United States as the world’s largest market for wind turbines — after doubling wind power capacity in each of the last four years. State-owned power companies are competing to see which can build solar plants fastest, though these projects are much smaller than the wind projects. And other green energy projects, like burning farm waste to generate electricity, are sprouting up.

This oasis town deep in the Gobi Desert along the famed Silk Road and the surrounding wilderness of beige sand dunes and vast gravel wastelands has become a center of China’s drive to lead the world in wind and solar energy.

A series of projects is under construction on the nearly lifeless plateau to the southeast of Dunhuang, including one of six immense wind power projects now being built around China, each with the capacity of more than 16 large coal-fired power plants.

Each of the six projects “totally dwarfs anything else, anywhere else in the world,” said Steve Sawyer, the secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group in Brussels.

Some top Chinese regulators even worry that Beijing’s mandates are pushing companies too far too fast. The companies may be deliberately underbidding for the right to build new projects and then planning to go back to the government later and demand compensation once the projects lose money.

“The problem is we have so many stupid enterprises,” said Li Junfeng, who is the deputy director general for energy research at China’s top economic planning agency and the secretary general of the government-run Renewable Energy Industries Association.

HSBC predicts that China will invest more money in renewable energy and nuclear power between now and 2020 than in coal-fired and oil-fired electricity.

That does not mean that China will become a green giant overnight. For one thing, Chinese power consumption is expected to rise steadily over the next decade as 720 million rural Chinese begin acquiring the air-conditioners and other power-hungry amenities already common among China’s 606 million city dwellers.

As recently as the start of last year, the Chinese government’s target was to have 5,000 megawatts of wind power installed by the end of next year, or the equivalent of eight big coal-fired power plants, a tiny proportion of China’s energy usage and a pittance at a time when China was building close to two coal-fired plants a week.

But in March of last year, as power companies began accelerating construction of wind turbines, the government issued a forecast that 10,000 megawatts would actually be installed by the end of next year. And now, just 15 months later, with construction of coal-fired plants having slowed to one a week and still falling, it appears that China will have 30,000 megawatts of wind energy by the end of next year — which was previously the target for 2020, Mr. Li said.

A big impetus was the government’s requirement, issued in September 2007, that large power companies generate at least 3 percent of their electricity by the end of 2010 from renewable sources. The calculation excludes hydroelectric power, which already accounts for 21 percent of Chinese power, and nuclear power, which accounts for 1.1 percent.

Chinese companies must generate 8 percent of their power from renewable sources other than hydroelectric by the end of 2020.

The House bill in the United States resembles China’s approach in imposing a renewable energy standard on large electricity providers. But the details make it hard to compare standards. The House bill requires large electricity providers in the United States to derive at least 15 percent of their energy by 2020 from a combination of energy savings and renewable energy — including hydroelectric dams built since 1992.

Chinese power companies are eager to invest in renewable energy not just because of the government’s mandates, but because they are flush with cash and state-owned banks are eager to lend them more money. And there are few regulatory hurdles.

Buses May Aid Climate Battle in Poor Cities

Buses May Aid Climate Battle in Poor Cities

Scott Dalton for The New York Times

Bogotá, Colombia, has implemented a bus rapid transit system, which improves traffic flow and reduces smog at a fraction of the cost of building a subway. More Photos >

Published: July 9, 2009

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Like most thoroughfares in booming cities of the developing world, Bogotá’s Seventh Avenue resembles a noisy, exhaust-coated parking lot — a gluey tangle of cars and the rickety, smoke-puffing private minibuses that have long provided transportation for the masses.

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But a few blocks away, sleek red vehicles full of commuters speed down the four center lanes of Avenida de las Américas. The long, segmented, low-emission buses are part of a novel public transportation system called bus rapid transit, or B.R.T. It is more like an above-ground subway than a collection of bus routes, with seven intersecting lines, enclosed stations that are entered through turnstiles with the swipe of a fare card and coaches that feel like trams inside.

Versions of these systems are being planned or built in dozens of developing cities around the world — Mexico City, Cape Town, Jakarta, Indonesia, and Ahmedabad, India, to name a few — providing public transportation that improves traffic flow and reduces smog at a fraction of the cost of building a subway.

But the rapid transit systems have another benefit: they may hold a key to combating climate change. Emissions from cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles in the booming cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America account for a rapidly growing component of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming. While emissions from industry are decreasing, those related to transportation are expected to rise more than 50 percent by 2030 in industrialized and poorer nations. And 80 percent of that growth will be in the developing world, according to data presented in May at an international conference in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and the Clean Air Institute.

To be effective, a new international climate treaty that will be negotiated in Copenhagen in December must include “a policy response to the CO2 emissions from transport in the developing world,” the Bellagio conference statement concluded.

Bus rapid transit systems like Bogotá’s, called TransMilenio, might hold an answer. Now used for an average of 1.6 million trips each day, TransMilenio has allowed the city to remove 7,000 small private buses from its roads, reducing the use of bus fuel — and associated emissions — by more than 59 percent since it opened its first line in 2001, according to city officials.

In recognition of this feat, TransMilenio last year became the only large transportation project approved by the United Nations to generate and sell carbon credits. Developed countries that exceed their emissions limits under the Kyoto Protocol, or that simply want to burnish a “green” image, can buy credits from TransMilenio to balance their emissions budgets, bringing Bogotá an estimated $100 million to $300 million so far, analysts say.

Indeed, the city has provided a model of how international programs to combat climate change can help expanding cities — the number of cars in China alone could increase sevenfold by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency — pay for transit systems that would otherwise be unaffordable.

“Bogotá was huge and messy and poor, so people said, ‘If Bogotá can do it, why can’t we?’ ” said Enrique Peñalosa, an economist and a former mayor of the city who took TransMilenio from a concept to its initial opening in 2001 and is now advising other cities. In 2008, Mexico City opened a second successful bus rapid transit line that has already reduced carbon dioxide emissions there, according to Lee Schipper, a transportation expert at Stanford University, and the city has applied to sell carbon credits as well.

But bus rapid transit systems are not the answer for every city. In the United States, where cost is less constraining, some cities, like Los Angeles, have built B.R.T.’s, but they tend to lack many of the components of comprehensive systems like TransMilenio, like fully enclosed stations, and they serve as an addition to existing rail networks.

In some sprawling cities in India, where a tradition of scooter use may make bus rapid transit more difficult to create, researchers are working to develop a new model of tuk-tuk, or motorized cab, that is cheap and will run on alternative fuels or with a highly efficient engine. “There are three million auto rickshaws in India alone, and the smoke is astonishing, so this could have a huge impact,” said Stef van Dongen, director of Enviu, an environmental network group in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that is sponsoring the research.

Bus rapid transit systems have not always worked well in cities that have tried them, either. In New Delhi, for example, the experiment foundered in part because it proved difficult to protect bus lanes from traffic. And a system that does not succeed in drawing passengers out of their cars just adds buses to existing vehicles on the roads, making traffic and emissions worse.

But with its wide streets, dense population and a tradition of bus travel, Bogotá had the ingredients for success. To create TransMilenio, the city commandeered two to four traffic lanes in the middle of major boulevards, isolating them with low walls to create the system’s so-called tracks. On the center islands that divide many of Bogotá’s two-way streets, the city built dozens of distinctive metal-and-glass stations. Just as in a subway, the multiple doors on the buses slide open level with the platform, providing easy access for strollers and older riders. Hundreds of passengers can wait on the platforms, avoiding the delays that occur when passengers each pay as they board.

Mr. Peñalosa noted that the negative stereotypes about bus travel required some clever rebranding. Now, he said, upscale condominiums advertise that they are near TransMilenio lines. “People don’t say, ‘I’m taking the bus,’ they say, ‘I’m taking TransMilenio,’ ” he added, as he rode at rush hour recently, chatting with other passengers.

Jorge Engarrita, 45, a leather worker who was riding TransMilenio to work, said the system had “changed his life,” reducing his commuting time to 40 minutes with one transfer from two or three hours on several buses. Free shuttle buses carry residents from outlying districts to TransMilenio terminals.

To the dismay of car owners, Bogotá removed one-third of its street parking to make room for TransMilenio and imposed alternate-day driving restrictions determined by license plate numbers, forcing car owners onto the system.

With an extensive route system, TransMilenio moves more passengers per mile every hour than almost any of the world’s subways. Most poorer cities that have built subways, like Manila and Lagos, Nigeria, can afford to build only a few limited lines because of the expense.

Subways cost more than 30 times as much per mile to build than a B.R.T. system, and three times as much to maintain. And bus rapid transit systems can be built more quickly. “Almost all rapidly developing cities understand that they need a metro or something like it, and you can get a B.R.T. by 2010 or a metro by 2060,” said Walter Hook, executive director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, in New York.

Although TransMilenio buses run on diesel, their efficient engines mean they emit less than half the nitrous oxide, particulate matter and carbon dioxide of the older minibuses. Cleaner fuels were either too expensive or did not work at Bogotá’s altitude, 9,000 feet above sea level.

TransMilenio is building more lines and underpasses to allow the buses to bypass clogged intersections, but for the moment the real challenge is overcrowding. Juan Gómez, 21, a businessman, takes TransMilenio only on days when he cannot drive, and he griped that it was often hard to find a seat.

“It’s O.K., but I prefer the car,” he said.

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JEREMY RIFKIN: Third Industrial Revolution - Leading the Way to a Green Energy Era and a Hydrogen Economy

What is the Third Industrial Revolution?

In a Nutshell: The Third Industrial Revolution is a distributed energy revolution as well as an economic game plan. There are 4 pillars upon which the Third Industrial Revolution is based upon: 1) Renewable Energy, 2) Buildings as Positive Power Plants, 3) Hydrogen storage, and 4) Smartgrids and Plug-in Vehicles.


"We have the science and technology to do it, but it will mean nothing unless there is a change in will." — Jeremy Rifkin

We are on the cusp of a Third Industrial Revolution that could give us a door open to a new post-fossil fuel era. It was the first Industrial Revolution that brought together print and literacy with coal steam and rail. The second combined the telegraph and telephone with the internal combustion engine and oil. What we now have now is the possibility of a distributed energy revolution. We can all create our own energy, store it, and then distribute it to each other. Twenty five years from now millions of buildings will become power plants that will load renewable energy. We will load solar power from the sun, wind from turbines and even ocean waves on each coast. We can also make the power grid of the world smart and intelligent; we call it inter-grid. Not far from now, millions and millions of people will load power to buildings, store it in the form of hydrogen and distribute energy peer-to-peer; just like digital media and the internet. The first inter-grids are going up in the United States this year in Houston, Boulder Colorado, and Southern California. Learn More...

What are the four pillars?
Pillar 1: Renewable Energy
Pillar 2: Buildings as Positive Power Plants
Pillar 3: Hydrogen Storage
Pillar 4: Smartgrids and Plug-in Vehicles

Google-backed school preps for ‘disruption’ | Singularity University

July 8th, 2009 – admin

By John Letzing, MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. (MarketWatch) – Investing during a recession is often touted as wise. Investing in classes loosely based on the science fiction-like notion of technology outsmarting its human creators may strike some as a curious approach to the concept, however.

Nevertheless, school officials say more than 1,200 applications were submitted for 40 inaugural spots at the recently-opened Singularity University, housed in an unassuming building at the sprawling NASA research center in Silicon Valley.

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