Plant power on the rise at Sequim Bay lab

Penisula Daily News (Washington)
By Diane Urbani de la Paz

SEQUIM - Look out to the open ocean and envision an energy powerhouse, a field of riches beyond measure.

No, this isn't about offshore oil drilling.

Amid those marine currents are the waves of the future: lowly, soggy plants as the next coveted commodity. Algae and seaweed, scientists and engineers in Sequim believe, can be cultivated and harvested to make jet fuel.

At the Marine Sciences Laboratory on Sequim Bay, Michael Huesemann, a biochemical engineer who grew up near Hamburg, Germany, is at the front of the quest for this next big thing called algal biofuel.

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