Eddy's Good News: Bill Gates filling potholes and new rope climbing world record!

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16 Apr 2024, 14:25

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Tuesday 16th April 2024

Flipping potholes. They’re everywhere, there was even a mention of them in a recent budget and it’s not just here in the U.K. where potholes are making headlines but in the United States one pothole just got filled by none other than Bill Gates! 

Bill was an early seed investor in a Seattle based company called Modern Hydrogen. They specialise in making clean hydrogen fuel and by using the CO2 they create in the process to make asphalt. Then that asphalt is used to fill in potholes, which is a double win. CO2 is sequestered in the stuff they’re using to build roads. Roads usually create millions of tonnes of CO2 so the idea of making carbon positive roads is a real game changer.

The billionaire pothole filler is highlighting the need for us to look at these creative solutions to the modern world to find a way for humans to work with Mother Nature rather than against her. 

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Were you forced to climb a big rope in PE at school? Remember how hard it was? Remember how your biceps and forearms burned with lactic acid after even a few seconds? Remember thinking I just can’t hold on to this, my hands are going to burn to the bone!

Well imagine French woman Anouk Garnier as she set a new world rope climbing record, 360 feet up the Eiffel Tower in 18 minutes of limb burning hell for any normal human! 

Anouk climbed up a rope through the centre of the tower and onto the second floor, smashing  the record set by South African athlete Thomas Van Tonder, who climbed 300 feet up a rope suspended between the Soweto Towers in Johannesburg.

Anouk’s incredible climb, which she did to raise money for cancer research, after her mum was diagnosed, obliterated the previous female world rope climb record by a staggering 4.5-times over.

You’ll see Anouk carrying the Olympic torch in Marseille in May for the lead-up to the Summer Olympics.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org