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Alexandru Benko worked for 17 years at the Tractor Factory in Miercurea-Ciuc, where he rose to the position of CEO. Since 1990, he has been working with forms of renewable energy. He was the first person to plant a culture of energetic willows in Romania, trees used successfully in other parts of the world as a renewable source of energy. The idea was taken from the Internet, („Salix Viminalis Energo”) and Alexandru Benkő brought the willow from a Swedish research institute, successfully applying it in Romania and several other neighboring countries to serve as an alternative source of energy. In addition to its use in the energetic field, the willow is also successfully used as a source of cellulose, fixing steep slopes, and to prevent landslides.
14 ideas – worth spreading – that you can find in the speech held by the entrepreneur Eng. Alexandru Benko:
- Is there a more correct method of producing energy?
- Is it a bad thing that we always have to learn from others?
- How many of its forest waste does Europe actually use?
- Can energetic plants actually provide the necessary raw materials for industry?
- How can a fortunate event change the direction you were about to follow?
- What do the statistics about the energetic willow reveal?
- How much does the energetic willow grow in a day?
- What did we learn from the way the energetic willow was used in Sweden?
- How did we buy the first energetic willow permit from the former socialist states?
- Is the energetic willow an agricultural or a forestry plant?
- How can we correctly use lands with high humidity (cca. 500.000 ha) that aren’t being used?
- How two important Romanian cities, Brasov and Cluj, could benefit from free energy for household heating?
- Why we made a major decision: The energetic willow will be ratified in Romania without external help!
- What did the senator promise, and forget after the elections?
