This is Good News Friday, where we find some good economic, energy, and environmental news and share it with PP readers. Please send any positive news to dd@peakprosperity.com with subject header “Good News Friday.” We will save and post weekly. Enjoy!
Economy
How A 10-Year-Old-Boy Helped Apollo 11 Return To Earth (jdargis)
“The bearing was replaced with the assistance of a 10-year-old boy named Greg Force who had arms small enough that he could work through a 2½ inch diameter hole to pack [the bearing].”
The rest is history. This month, America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, an event firmly planted in the nation’s collective memory.
SunTrust to stop financing private prisons and immigrant-detention centers (Jen H.)
SunTrust’s decision follows similar moves by Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. Protesters and politicians including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is running for president, have urged bank executives and investors to back away from the business as immigrant detentions have soared.
Woman was so excited she beat cancer that she broke the ‘cancer-free’ bell (TS)
“I couldn’t even fathom being done, I was so overwhelmed yesterday,” she told CNN. “Guess I didn’t know how strong I was!”
Jaye said she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in February. She said she had a fast-growing tumor, and thought she was going to have to have chemotherapy. She ended up being treated with 30 radiation treatments, and yesterday was the last one.
The House Just Voted to Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 (jdargis)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that he would not bring the bill to a vote before the Senate, claiming that a minimum wage hike “would kill jobs and depress the economy.” But research has shown that areas that have already raised the minimum wage, such as New York, have seen poverty decrease with no negative effects on jobs.
Why this man became a hermit at 20 (tmn)
“First he was never for a moment, in all 27 years, bored. He was never lonely. He said that he felt almost the opposite of that. He said he felt utterly and intricately connected to everything else in the world. It was difficult for him to tell where his body ended, and the woods began. He said he felt this utter communion with nature and with the outside world.”
Scotland Is Now Generating So Much Wind Energy, It Could Power Two Scotlands (jdargis)
Coal power stations didn’t supply any energy to the grid for seven days in a row, according to the National Grid in the UK – a total of 167 consecutive hours. Gas turbines, nuclear power, solar energy and other renewables all played a part.
That’s in line with the UK government’s target to do without coal completely by 2025, and it looks as though Scotland could have a big part to play in reaching that goal.
Device could bring both solar power and clean water to millions (Jen H.)
“Having a significant amount of freshwater produced continuously on a daily basis [means] many challenging tasks can then be easily achievable,” said Wang. “The generated clean water can be used [for] cleaning solar panels to remove dust particles; it can be use to irrigate plants and crops, making desert agriculture possible.”
Brand New Material Could Lead To Cheaper Solar Cells (Michael S.)
The KU research is the latest discovery that could, in the future, lead to much higher solar cell performance than previously thought.
Recent research and experiments have led to discoveries in both organic semiconductors and conventional silicon-based solar cells.
‘We won’: Environmental activists claim victory after Detroit incinerator closes (Jen H.)
“We may only know later what finally brought us justice and closed the thing, but I know that elected officials generally respond to demands from big numbers of constituents which the signatures represented,” Hunter said.
Hunter felt motivated to fight against the incinerator as he compared the grim realities of his own Detroit neighborhood to the clean air of northern Michigan.
Gold & Silver
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