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Hotshots – Today’s Top Five Stories
Salmon Return to
Klamath Basin in Oregon After More Than a Century (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/18/salmon-return-klamath-basin-oregon-dam-removal/
Cuba Grid Collapses
Again, Raising Doubts About a Quick Fix (Reuters)
U.S. Approves Major
Geothermal Project on Public Lands, Seeks to Support Others (Reuters)
Can Hydropower
Survive Climate Change? (Oil Price)
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Hydroelectric/Can-Hydropower-Survive-Climate-Change.html
Three of Four
‘Let’s Go WA’ Initiatives Face Significant Opposition Headed into Nov.
Election: WA Poll (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
News Highlights (See
Stories Below)
1. Cuba
Grid Collapses Again, Raising Doubts About a Quick Fix
2. What
Happens When a Country Goes Too Long without Electricity? Death &
Devastation Follow
3. Avista
Receives $85 Million Grant to Harden Transmission Lines Against Fires
4. Democrats
Embrace Nuclear Power in Heated Senate Races
5. U.S.
Approves Major Geothermal Project on Public Lands, Seeks to Support Others
6. Increasing
the Efficiency of Hydropower Plants with Utility-Scale Batteries
7. Idaho
Approves First Solar Permit on State Endowment Land
8. Solar
Project on Napa Wastewater Ponds to Power 5,000 Homes, Gains County OK
9. Two
WA State Programs to Assist with Clean Energy Projects
10. Central
Washington Faces Challenges, Opportunities with Growing Renewable Tech Industry
11. Thinking
of Going Solar? Wait Until You Need a New Roof.
12. Does
Daylight Saving Time Help with Energy Bills?
13. Paywall
Advisory: Heat Pumps Were Supposed to Transform the World. But It’s Not Going
as Planned.
14. Salmon
Return to Klamath Basin in Oregon After More Than a Century
15. Declining
Fish Populations: Dams, Climate, And Restoration Efforts
16. Can
Pacific Lamprey Numbers Be Restored in the Columbia River Basin? Yakama Nation
Biologists Think So
17. Thousands
of Salmon Eggs Arrive at Southeast Washington Schools
18. Can
Hydropower Survive Climate Change?
19. Nearly
$75 Million in Federal Grant Funds to Help Alaska Native Communities with
Climate Impacts
20. Banking
on Oregon Forests: In Fight Against Climate Change, Financial Markets See Green
in Oregon
21. Carbon
Markets – Safe from Possible Trump Attack – Could Expand
22. October
Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Here’s How to Stay Safe from Scams
23. How
a Small Reactor in Eastern WA Became the World’s First Nuclear Plant 80 Years
Ago
24. Three
of Four ‘Let’s Go WA’ Initiatives Face Significant Opposition Headed into Nov.
Election: WA Poll
25. In
Inaugural Tribal Energy Summit, Carbon Capture, Critical Minerals and
Sovereignty Take Center Stage
26. NOAA’s
Annual Winter Forecast Is Here. These Are the Weather Predictions for Your Area
27.
Columnist: Communications After a Disaster
Word of the Day – The Horrible Haiku Edition
Blandish \BLANN-dish\ Verb - 1: to coax or persuade with flattery: cajole 2: to act or speak in a flattering or coaxing manner.
Blandishments aside
Haggis is Haggis, always
Not my cup of guts
Energy & Utility
Issues
1.
Cuba Grid Collapses Again, Raising Doubts About a
Quick Fix (Reuters)
2.
What Happens When a Country Goes Too Long without
Electricity? Death & Devastation Follow (The Miami Herald, FL – Via Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/happens-country-goes-too-long-191856350.html
3.
Avista Receives $85 Million Grant to Harden
Transmission Lines Against Fires (KREM-TV, Spokane, WA)
4.
Democrats Embrace Nuclear Power in Heated Senate
Races (Huffington Post)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-election-nuclear_n_6712ccc1e4b0e2b6e54c0e1c
Renewable Energy & Self
Storage
5.
U.S. Approves Major Geothermal Project on Public
Lands, Seeks to Support Others (Reuters)
6.
Increasing the Efficiency of Hydropower Plants with
Utility-Scale Batteries (Idaho National Library)
7.
Idaho Approves First Solar Permit on State
Endowment Land (KTVB-TV, Boise, ID – Via MSN)
8.
Solar Project on Napa Wastewater Ponds to Power
5,000 Homes, Gains County OK (Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, CA)
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/napa/napa-solar-wastewater/
9.
Two WA State Programs to Assist with Clean
Energy Projects (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2024/oct/21/2-programs-to-assist-with-clean-energy-projects/
10.
Central Washington Faces Challenges,
Opportunities with Growing Renewable Tech Industry (Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA
– Via AOL)
https://www.aol.com/central-washington-faces-challenges-opportunities-035900800.html
11.
Thinking of Going Solar? Wait Until You Need a New
Roof. (Grist Online)
https://grist.org/climate-energy/thinking-of-going-solar-wait-until-you-need-a-new-roof/
Conservation &
Efficiency
12.
Does Daylight Saving Time Help with Energy
Bills? (C|Net News)
https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/does-daylight-saving-time-help-with-energy-bills/
13.
Paywall Advisory: Heat Pumps Were Supposed to
Transform the World. But It’s Not Going as Planned. (Washington Post, Paywall
Advisory)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/10/21/heat-pump-sales-slump-us-europe/
Fish & Wildlife
14.
Salmon Return to Klamath Basin in Oregon After
More Than a Century (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/18/salmon-return-klamath-basin-oregon-dam-removal/
15.
Declining Fish Populations: Dams, Climate, And
Restoration Efforts (International Water Power & Dam Construction)
16.
Can Pacific Lamprey Numbers Be Restored in the Columbia
River Basin? Yakama Nation Biologists Think So (Vancouver Columbian, WA – Paywall
Advisory)
17.
Thousands of Salmon Eggs Arrive at Southeast Washington
Schools (Northwest Public Broadcasting)
https://www.nwpb.org/2024/10/16/thousands-of-salmon-eggs-arrive-at-southeast-washington-schools/
Climate Change
Sequestration Vault
18.
Can Hydropower Survive Climate Change? (Oil
Price)
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Hydroelectric/Can-Hydropower-Survive-Climate-Change.html
19.
Nearly $75 Million in Federal Grant Funds to Help
Alaska Native Communities with Climate Impacts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-natives-climate-change-grant-bbf9137f73a45421b71c5996eb83b3fc
20.
Banking on Oregon Forests: In Fight Against
Climate Change, Financial Markets See Green in Oregon (Oregon Capital Chronicle)
21.
Carbon Markets – Safe from Possible Trump Attack
– Could Expand (E&E News)
https://www.eenews.net/articles/carbon-markets-safe-from-possible-trump-attack-could-expand/
Beam Me Up, Scotty - The
Wizarding World of Technology & Cybersecurity
22.
October Is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Here’s
How to Stay Safe from Scams (Vancouver Columbian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Barrel O’ Green
Potpourri – Seething Stew of Science
23.
How a Small Reactor in Eastern WA Became the World’s
First Nuclear Plant 80 Years Ago (The Olympian, WA – Via Yahoo! News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/small-reactor-eastern-wa-became-120000073.html
Management &
Governance
24.
Three of Four ‘Let’s Go WA’ Initiatives Face
Significant Opposition Headed into Nov. Election: WA Poll (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
25.
In Inaugural Tribal Energy Summit, Carbon
Capture, Critical Minerals and Sovereignty Take Center Stage (Inside Climate
News)
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102024/inaugural-tribal-energy-summit/
Other Things to Know
About Today
26.
NOAA’s Annual Winter Forecast Is Here. These Are
the Weather Predictions for Your Area (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/18/noaa-releases-annual-winter-outlook-for-2024-2025-season/
Soapbox Serenade – Vox
Populi
27.
Columnist: Communications After a Disaster (Pots
& Pans)
https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2024/10/17/communications-after-a-disaster/
Alligators in the Sewer – Diversions
West Coast Giant
Pumpkin Regatta 2024
https://www.oregonlive.com/galleries/33GYJCKYQVGCDKSOSYODRCCHXA/
A Southern
California School Plants a ‘Moon Tree’ Grown with Seeds Flown in Space
https://www.wcvb.com/article/southern-california-school-plants-a-moon-tree/62612011
Dog Spotted Hanging
Out on Top of Ancient Pyramid in Egypt
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dog-spotted-hanging-top-ancient-183947227.html
Missouri Museum
Opens 100-Year-Old Time Capsule
Song of the Day
Cat Stevens – Moon
Shadow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZUL07qwfw
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