The forest in France are growing faster than we are cutting them. Therefore, using them for energy would make for: - a cheap, local energy source; - one that

The forest in France are growing faster than we are cutting them. Therefore, using them for energy would make for: - a cheap, local energy source; - one that is renewable; - one that captures as much carbon as its consumption emmitted when its renewed (minus transportation and transformation, which is true for any energy source we use). So it seems it's not that of a bad idea if you manage to keep the forest sizeable and healthy. It's hard to do for the UK because it's a small densely populated islande, so maybe the tweet is valid for them, but extending it for all Europe is far fetched. Espacially since the UK brexited. Now, I'm pretty sure if we start abusing it, we will discoverd it kills some important ecosystem to regularly turn over trees like that, or suck all minerals from the the soil. So I'm not going to assume it's without problems, but we don't have an energy source for 8 billions humans that don't have any.