Eddy's Good News: Tesla powered by roll up solar panel and young treasure hunter finds owner of lost safe!

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26 Apr 2022, 09:06

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 26th April 2022

Good news from down under and an inspiring trip across the most remote parts of Australia in a Tesla powered only by a roll up solar panel!Say g’day to the Charge Around Australia project, an 84 day journey for scientists to talk to over 70 schools about how they’re traversing some of the most remote corners of the globe in an electric car powered solely by a solar panel!

They want to inspire the kids to make changes in their every day lives that can help slow down climate change.Invented by a Brit, this solar panel is quite something, printed by a machine that makes wine labels, as thin as paper, entirely rollable and it rolls out to an impressive 56 feet so it can capture loads of solar energy. People’s biggest fear of buying electric cars is the range anxiety and these electro boffins want to reassure people and ask them to rethink how they could travel even in remote places. Even the cost of the solar panel is surprisingly affordable at just a tad over £2.50 per square foot.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Heart-warming news from here in the UK as a teenage treasure hunter finds a stolen safe full of money and instead of bathing in cash, he tracks down the original owner!

Say hello to George Tindale, who’s just 15 years old and from Newark in Nottinghamshire and has a pretty unique hobby. He hunts for treasure at the bottom of rivers, using a powerful magnet. Three weeks ago while money-minesweeping the river Witham in Lincolnshire, he hit the jackpot. A safe that had been stolen, but the thief couldn’t open it, so they threw it in the river. George got it open and discovered, amongst the silt and slime, a pouch containing $2500 Aussie dollars. It looked like monopoly money but it was very real and rather than celebrate his good fortune he studied what he found in the safe and used it to track down Rob Everett, a businessman from Grantham who was as overjoyed as he was shocked that George and his dad made the effort to find him and give him his stolen money back! In fact he was so moved he offered George a job when he leaves school!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org