Methane cracking for clean energy

Monica, Forest Green Rovers have won an award from Sport and Leisure Catering Magazine for 'Menu of the Year', beating places such as the Tower of London and Grosvenor Casinos!

Isn't the point that we need all sorts of renewable energy - except I do not like the idea of nuclear. Ecotricity do not use nuclear.
Strangely EDF are not going to build any more nuclear power stations in France, which is why they are trying to build/fund them here.
If you want fracking under your house, please tell the powers that be. That will save them trying to frack in places where they do not want the wells....

Once again I am not objecting to the food, I am sure it is excellent, as is everything Dale Vince does. I merely commented that I scent an agenda here and anyone choosing to buy ecotricity should know of it. It may well encourage some people to buy their energy from Ecotricity, but others may be less enthusiastic. I am passing no moral judgements, making no criticisms. I am just saying that if there is an agenda then it should be out in the open so that potential consumers can use it to inform their buying decisions.

By the way DJ, as you haven't picked the issue up I assume you are relaxed about the problems too much dependence on windpower can cause and the regular use of diesel power generation kit to remedy this.

I do not know that there can be too much dependency on windpower. Can there be? I thought you said the problem was with storage, which they are trying to overcome at the moment.

I know what happens when there is a surge. It happened on my estate last weekend. They are still trying to fix some of the houses. Some of the street lights are still off.
Fortunately my son and his family were not affected, so we just stuck a mesage on the window telling them to phone when we were needed. Lost a bit of food from fridge and freezer, even though we were going back and forward with food most weekend.
However, it was to do with old wiring in the exchange, the neutral going, which caused the surge. Lots of computers, lights and televisions blowing up.
I think we will all be more careful in future.

I use Ecotricity because of the agenda. I think most people who use Ecotricity must know of it. He advertises on the back of the Viva! magazine and gives a £60 donation to Viva! for everyone who joins.
Like I said, I can't afford to have solar or ground source, so I think paying Ecotricity to research into renewable energy is one bit towards the environment.
In the advert he says
"Together with Energy and Transport, Food is one of the three biggest sources of carbon emmissions in Britain - that's why campaigning for a plant-based diet is an important part of our work."
Can't be more open than that.

DJ I think we will just have to agree to differ, we have been through versions of this discussion so many times.

Have we? I thought you were quite new on here.

We have gone through these arguments or very similar ones on a range of threads over the years. Neither is going to convince the other and we just go round swapping the same arguments in different forms on different threads. It must be very tedious for others taking part on any given thread to read both of us again and again saying much the same each time.