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Dear John and Joan

Yet again, your unbelievably excellent and well-thumbed 'Clun Chronicle' has finally found its way into my hands after others have lapped it up, first!

Jim Halcro-Johnston's authoritative article on hydrogen was good to read.  My disquiet over hydrogen is that it is either made from burning fossil fuels and, therefore, defeats the whole object of the exercise to urgently cut fossil fuel use.  Or, it is made from renewable energy.  In which case, why not use the renewables directly and, thus more efficiently?  This is what I am doing with our 6.24 kWp PV solar and a 14.4 kWh storage battery.  We are still having to import 2 kWh per night because of short daylight hours in November, December and January.  However, it is at night time and that is the very best time to use grid electricity.  We also hope, in 2022, to move from gas cooking to electric induction cooking, as it is important to use less gas if at all possible.

I think our very rich, fossil fuel-addicted, unsustainable lifestyles must somehow change to accommodate the rather unfortunate reality that we are living infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet.  We are snookered, even if the climate emergency is all one big hoax.  It is most definitely NOT, however and, it IS an emergency!

Sir Jonathon Porritt has called for both tidal stream and tidal range electricity in his recent blog that is publicly available.  That would help, as would his many decades of exhorting us to tread more lightly on the planet and to live more simply so that others may simply live.  I am minimising the car, meat/dairy and all consumption.  Maximising use of insulation, renewables, the self-powered bike and, buying when essential.

Best wishes and thanks again for all your work in producing the Chronicle, month after month.