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
99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2019 (tmn)
Fortunately, that wasn’t the only news. There were other stories out there, stories of conservation, health, rising living standards, tolerance, peace, cleaner energy and environmental stewardship. Most of them didn’t make it onto our Facebook feeds though, and that means that what we saw on our screens in 2019 was not the world. It was a negative image of the world, in both the photographic and tonal senses.
This Is the Age Where Life Has the Most Meaning (Thomas R.)
The research also found that as people’s sense of meaning in life rises, so does their well-being. “People with purpose in life are physically and psychologically healthier,” said Dr. Awais Aftab, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego, who led the research.
Senate Opens Door to New Options in Your 401(k) (Thomas R.)
Many employers have long been reluctant to include annuities in their offerings because they feared being sued if an insurance provider could not make the guaranteed payments — something that could happen decades after an employee has left an organization. The new law eliminates some of the liability for employers.
Why Americans Love Social Security (TS)
This is the most important argument to emerge from the 2020 Democratic contest so far: whether the party stands for giving public benefits only to people with the fewest resources, or for making them available for all. It’s a worthy debate. But the winning argument, particularly for the big, important programs that candidates have proposed, is with those who want to provide them equally to everyone.
Can good sleep patterns offset genetic susceptibility to heart disease and stroke? (Thomas R.)
The researchers found that compared to those with a sleep score of 0-1 (unhealthy sleep pattern), participants with a score of 5 had a 35% reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, and a 34% reduced risk of both heart disease and stroke.
Losing weight could slash a woman’s breast cancer risk by nearly a third (Thomas R.)
Being overweight or obese is “clearly linked” with the disease, as well as tumours of the colon, rectum, womb lining, oesophagus, kidneys and pancreas, according to the American Cancer Society.
This is concerning given that 58% of women in England alone were overweight or obese in 2015, NHS Digital statistics show.
Do you eat chiles? It could save your life (Thomas R.)
Researchers recently found that eating chile peppers can cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, especially if they’re eaten regularly, according to CNN.
New Study of The Weird Auroras on Mars Just Revealed Something We Didn’t Expect (Thomas R.)
“Observations of proton auroras at Mars provide a unique perspective of hydrogen and, therefore, water loss from the planet,” says physicist Edwin Mierkiewicz of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.
“Through this research, we can gain a deeper understanding of the Sun’s interactions with the upper atmosphere of Mars and with similar bodies in our Solar System, or in another solar system, that lack a global magnetic field.”
World’s First All-Electric Airplane Soars in Vancouver (tmn)
The plane marks the start of a potential new era of flight, where electric flights could dramatically cut down on carbon emissions, making the term friendly skies actually more meaningful. And with over 2.5% of all global emissions coming from air travel, it’s clear we need more options like this.
Scientists find cheaper way to make hydrogen energy out of water (Thomas R.)
“What we do is coat the electrodes with our catalyst to reduce energy consumption,” he says. “On this catalyst there is a tiny nano-scale interface where the iron and nickel meet at the atomic level, which becomes an active site for splitting water. This is where hydrogen can be split from oxygen and captured as fuel, and the oxygen can be released as an environmentally-friendly waste.”
Did Scientists Just Crack The Solar Code? (Thomas R.)
In a nutshell, MOVPE’s advantage was its ability to produce the right aluminum-containing materials that underpin the solar cell efficiency. The previously ditched HVPE version couldn’t grow these materials. Now, they can, with D-HVPE.
The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer (tmn)
This is good news for a planet in the grips of a climate crisis. Nuclear energy gets a bad rap in some environmentalist circles, but many energy experts and policymakers agree that splitting atoms is going to be an indispensable part of decarbonizing the world’s electricity. In the US, nuclear power accounts for about two-thirds of all clean electricity, but the existing reactors are rapidly approaching the end of their regulatory lifetimes. Only two new reactors are under construction in the US, but they’re billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
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