Eddy's Good News: Dad's blunder takes him on a race for time and Geothermal Energy Centre

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22 Mar 2024, 17:19

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio Anthems, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!

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Friday 22nd March 2024

When New Hampshire resident Jake McAlpin accidentally threw away his daughter’s favorite stuffed animal, the most unlikely and lofty twin official took a whole day out to help find it.

Cupcake is a floppy-eared dog that daughter Charlotte received for Christmas when she was four. Though now a grown woman, Cupcake was never far from her side. It’s her emotional support stuffie. 

Then one day, disaster.

Her dad took a bunch of stuff to the local dump and Cupcake was in there. 

Mother Meredith put out a post on Facebook asking if anyone was available to help look for Cupcake that Thursday.

The post was picked up by Brian Monahan, the “Selectman” for the town of Strafford, effectively Brian is the Mayor. 

On a rainy Thursday morning, Brian and Dad Jake began searching through rubbish compactors that had smushed the municipal waste bags so thoroughly that Monahan’s colleague Dan had to use a hoe to loosen it enough so they could get their hands in there.

When others saw them searching they waded in to help and before the day was out they found Cupcake, to the great relief of all, especially Charlotte’s dad, who was in serious trouble for throwing it away in the first place. The smile on Charlotte’s face made it all worth it.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

I told you about  Microsoft’s massive HQ modernization a few years ago and it’s almost finished. The 72-acre campus includes dozens of hopefully planet-saving designs and features, but none are more impressive than the Geothermal Energy Center (TEC).

The closed-loop geothermal heating and cooling system sends either cool or warm water to exchange energy with 900 boreholes deep into the earth, and the refrigeration is so powerful that it could cool 3,000 homes in the summertime.

“Its nine chillers can provide 9,000 tons of refrigeration. The system is sized to serve 3 million square feet of office and amenity space in 17 new buildings with just four left to build. 

Giant 28,000-gallon water tanks hold the water that’s exchanged in the piping below the Earth. 

The whole thing is powered by renewable energy, meaning the comparatively small quantity of electricity needed to power the heat exchanger comes with zero emissions.

There’s even an all-electric kitchen space and clever cisterns to catch 200,000 gallons of rainwater.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org