Eddy's Good News: The world’s biggest wave energy power station and a 1300 year-old necklace

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20 Dec 2022, 10:26

Credit: ecowavepower.com.

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day! Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Tuesday 20th December 2022

Encouraging tech news from Sweden and beyond as a new Swedish power company, Eco Wave Power, announces plans to build the world’s biggest wave energy power station.

The potentially endless power of the tide is being spectacularly harnessed by two rows of massive floating pontoons, which look like ships hulls, attached to sea walls and or piers, by huge pistons, which are in turn attached to generators to turn wave and tide into clean green energy.

They start their first project on a smaller scale in Turkey, and if it all works like it does on paper, then they build a $150 million power station which is capable of generating 77 megawatts.

It’s not their first rodeo either, Eco Wave Power has a smaller power station at Israel’s Port of Jaffa and demoed the idea in Gibraltar for the past six years.

Via: ecowavepower.com.

Credit: MOLA/Hugh Gatt

Amazing news from here in the UK as archaeologists unearth an ‘astonishing’ 1300 year old necklace, the greatest ever found in the UK!

Say hello to the Harpole Treasure, from Northamptonshire, named after the parish it was found in. The amazing necklace has 17 pendants plus a magnificent cruciform centre piece of a cross motif of red garnet pieces set in gold. The pendants are semi precious stones all set in gold, plus gold roman coins.

DNA analysis of the grave revealed it was a woman and given this is the most expensive necklace of its kind ever found here, it must have been a woman of extremely high status, either royalty or an Abess.

Experts at Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) have called it the most significant female burial site of the era, ever found in Britain.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org.