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The flood-damaged western trestle of the Olympic Discovery Trail over the Dungeness River remains barricaded.
Bridge fix runs into 7 figures Discovery Trail span may cost $1.8 million BY CHRIS MCDANIEL
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Peter Chen, a lab research associate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, checks the pH balance of an algae growth pond beneath thousands of LED lights simulating the full spectrum of sunlight.
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SEQUIM — An early estimate of the cost of repair or replacement of Railroad Bridge is $1.8 million, according to the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe, which is seeking funding to repair February flood damage that prompted closure of the bridge to through-traffic. And although the tribe hopes to find a stopgap measure to allow the bridge to be reopened this summer, it may not be in time for the North Olympic Discovery Marathon on June 7, a race that draws thousands of runners annually. So a new route has been mapped out for the race, Larry Little, president of the marathon, said. TURN
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SEQUIM — Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Marine Sciences Laboratory are working to develop a new, low-cost process to draw carbon dioxide out of the air to grow algae that can be refined into alternative gasoline and jet fuel. The beauty of fuel derived from algae is that it is “carbon-neutral,” meaning that the amount of carbon dioxide, or CO2, released when it is burned is equivalent to the amount the algae consumes during growth.
If it were cheap enough to be in mass production, algae-derived fuel could, scientists say, put the brakes on emission into the atmosphere of CO2, which accounted for 82 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2012, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Huesemann, Marine Sciences Laboratory project lead. “Therefore, the sooner we can find biofuels, or alternative fuels that are not emitting carbon,” the better it will be for the environment, he said. Another benefit is that algae produces and releases oxygen as it grows. “They make oxygen, so that is a good thing,” Huesemann said. Algal oil, a byproduct of microscopic algae — a unicellular type of photosynthetic algae including up to 800,000 separate species worldwide — can be refined into gasoline and jet fuel.
Global warming Many scientists link an increase in greenhouse gases to global warming. It is important to find alternatives to fossil fuels and make them economically viable because “we are trying to solve the problem of global warming,” said Michael
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Leighton said he had seen a number of similar theft cases. TACOMA — A Port Ange“There’s got to be some resles man who collected nearly idue that reverberates to the $200,000 by claiming his community at large — both to grandmother was still alive the population that is tempted years after her death has been and the population that is sentenced in U.S. District angry about the unprovoked Court in Tacoma to one year theft of taxpayer money,” he in prison and three years of said. supervised release. According to court records, Morgan Michael Hopkins, after Hopkins’ grandmother 43, pleaded guilty to theft of died in March 2009, he forged public funds in connection official government documenwith his scheme to collect and tation claiming to be his use survivor benefits owed to grandmother and requesting his grandmother, said acting that her federal workers’ comU.S. Attorney Annette L. pensation death survivor benHayes. efits continue. At Friday’s sentencing, U.S. District Judge Ronald B. TURN TO SCHEME/A5
British company purchases PA composites manufacturer BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Shimtech Industries Ltd., a British composite manufacturing company, has purchased Port Angeles-based Angeles Composite Technologies Inc. from Native American-owned Koniag Inc. of Kodiak, Alaska. ACTI co-founder Mike Rauch of Port Angeles will remain as president-director of the five-person board of directors, according to ACTI’s annual report filed Wednesday with the state Secretary of State’s Office. The change will prove “absoKEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS lutely invisible” to the general Angeles Composite Technologies Inc., next to William R. public, Rauch said Friday.
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