Renewable and clean energy sources are the only way for humanity to live harmoniously on planet Earth. How to achieve this goal? Solar and wind energy are produced only when the sun and wind are present. The percentage of hydropower is quite small. Therefore, compensating sources of energy are needed at night and in winter. Today, these are coal and gas-fired power plants. The goal of the Fast grow Energy Forest project is to grow and harvest wood (biomass) as a source of replacing fossil coal and gas for power plants and boilers. Ten-year research by scientists together with producers demonstrates the effectiveness of growing fast-growing trees, which are technologically cut with harvesters for biomass every 3 years. This project has great economic, environmental and energy prospects and needs immediate support from financial institutions, scientists and the government. This is a real ecologically clean bioaccumulator of solar energy. After the complete cutting of plants, willow plantations, the shoots grow again and after three years the upper part of the tree is completely restored. That is, when cutting Fast grow Energy Forest for wood, we do not destroy it, but restore it. Is this project environmentally friendly? After all, we burn sawn wood and pollute the air with CO2? Yes, this project is ecological and works with "zero" use of CO2 and even additionally cleans the air. In Figure 1 of CO2 absorption, we see the complete cycle of carbon movement. Every three years, the plantation absorbs about 200 tons of CO2 from the air. During combustion, 70% of CO2, 140 tons, is released into the air, and 60 tons, which is 30%, remains in the roots. This process is repeated every 3 years and involves 8 or more biomass harvests. Europe's potential of 117 million hectares of marginal land (land unsuitable for agriculture) and 5.5 million kilometers of roads is also the potential for FgEF creation. In conversion, this amounts to 82.6 billion m3 of gas equivalent. We are also reducing CO2 emissions by 3.17 billion tons.
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