Things I learned lately 1 October

• For the first time since 1954, a Royal Canadian Navy ship, the HMCS Harry DeWolf, has completed the journey through the Northwest Passage.
  
  
  
• There's a new idea being explored to give decommissioned coal plants a new life as energy storage plants. Using carbon and aluminum miscibility gap alloy technology, shipping container sized heat batteries get their energy from surplus wind and solar and release it back into the same steam generating mechanisms that the coal plant used to use from burning coal. Imagine being able to not only repurpose coal plants as energy storage, but also re-employ plant workers and build the kind of necessary storage into the grid that makes green energy more attainable.
• Cooperative Truck Platooning System (CTPS) trials will be conducted on Alberta highways. It's when two or more trucks are driving nose to tail automatically and linked using connectivity technology and automated driving support systems.
• Babylon 5 is making a comeback as a reboot by the original creator.
• Steely Dan were almost named Big Nardo and The Eighth Grade.
• Jupiter's great red spot's winds have increased to over 400 mph (643 km/h). So, no flights to Jupiter until further notice.
• Due to various injuries, Phil Collins can't play drums anymore and walks with a cane. But Genesis are currently touring, with Phil's son Nicholas now playing the drums in the band, and Phil sings sitting in a chair at centre stage.
• The most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM) in Cincinnati, Ohio, which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbours within the vicinity of the transmitter told stories about hearing the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.