{"id":401,"date":"2019-01-15T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=401"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:23:33","slug":"can-robotic-sensor-fish-save-salmon-from-hydroelectric-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/can-robotic-sensor-fish-save-salmon-from-hydroelectric-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"Can robotic \u2018sensor fish\u2019 save salmon from hydroelectric dams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 71 percent of the world\u2019s renewable energy comes from hydropower and more dams are being built all of the time. But while energy wrung from rivers doesn\u2019t release greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming in the way coal and gas plants do, there are still environmental costs.<\/p>\n<p>And in the Northwest, the main concern is the harm caused to salmon traveling up river to spawn and downriver as juveniles returning to the ocean. The dams injure and kill fish in a variety of ways as they navigate fish ladders and bypasses, plunge through turbines and swim through unnaturally warm reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2019\/can-robotic-sensor-fish-save-salmon-hydroelectric-dams\/\">Read More on the robotic \u2018sensor fish\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-402 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/01\/sensorfish-630x433-600x412.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/01\/sensorfish-630x433-600x412.png 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/01\/sensorfish-630x433-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/01\/sensorfish-630x433.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 71 percent of the world\u2019s renewable energy comes from hydropower and more dams are being built all of the time. But while energy wrung from rivers doesn\u2019t release greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming in the way coal and gas plants do, there are still environmental costs. And in the Northwest, the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}