Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 35

1 tiflUAY, May uu i IHCUftALMNU IIWXJNC a Around the Area Lab may By Gfam Roberts Jr. STAFF WWTHl East Palo Alto keeps title of most youthful in Bay Area The proposed power plant Livermore Lab, which wouldhj fueled by natural gu burpq with pure oxygen, would pro duce steam ana carbon dioxide as byproducts. Steam could be cycled, bfyl Into the system and the dioxide could he trapped then pumped Into the nil commercial oil field to stlm oil recovery, said company Livermore Lab officials. Rick Jeter, who oil field, said the Held hag pro-. duced about 1 million barrefaifjf oil In ore than 30 years of eratlon, and Injecting carbon oxide could expedite the recovery there.

He esthna that there is still about $20 Hon to $30 million worth to be recovered. 1 The capture of parbon oxide, a sorbs heat when re the Earth's atmosphere, win-Wln situation for the 1 environing! and oil recovery, Doyle 1 "It's our" Intention never til release (carbon dioxide) lnto petroleum, methane and biomass. Clean Energy has received about $2.6 million from the Energy. Department to develop a gas generator -scaled for a 10-' megawatt power plant. The gas generator, which' la expected to be tested at Aerojet facilities this year, would burn the fuel at temperatures reaching 2, $00 degrees In a narrow, 8-foot-long chamber, producing steam that could Kr electricity-producing tur- and make bulky conventional boilers obsolete.

Already, the developers completed a series of testa ori a smaller, experimental genei Jor unit In January at UC DaV'ts, Doyle said- company officials have proposed to use- the. technology to build a power plant on a closed landfill site In the Lbs Angeles area. That plant, as proposed, convert methane gas Into electricity while pumping' carbon dioxide to oil Adds. And company officials have also proposed to replace a Ira-. dltlonal boiler at a natural gas plant In Glendale with Its own LIVERMORE With oil pumps cranking behind them Wednesday at a site just east of Lawrence Livermore Labora-, advocates of a.

rocket-inspired, dean-burning energy technology discussed plans to put their ideas to work. Livermore 1 Lab officials are planning to submit a proposal, this year to construct a small-1 scale, $70 million power plant at the lab to test the technology, developed tty retired scientists who worked for Aerojet, a Sac-ramenlo-area aerospace, company. Ray Smith, who leads Liver-" more Lab's Applied Energy Technologies division, said during the event that he Is hopeful, that U.S. Energy De- partment ofllclals will embrace this project as one to move forward In the 2003 budget, Energy Department has already awarded Livermore Lab $1.2 million to prepare a conceptual design report for Ihe proposed plant, Stephen E. a retired Aerojet lawyer and president of Clean Energy Systems a company formed to commercial Use the scientists' technology, said, "We're taking a technology and transforming It from the aerospace Industry to the power Doyle said the emission-free plant deslgi, which utilizes the company's "Zero Emissions Steam Technology," Is based on the same technology that propels, the space shuttle Into the1 sky.

The plant could operated with a variety of fuels, such as Census 2000 figures show a similar with more than 30 percent of the tlon too young to get a driver's Also a possible sign of the youlhfulness of East Palp Alto, the size of the average family In the city Is 4.6 membersi far above the county average of 3.2. Latino population Hana Johnaon, a demogra- pher with Public Policy I ns 11-tute. of California, said East Palo Alto's Latino population which more than doubled over the last 10 years Is also pushing the median age lower. Many Latinos are new Im- and most Immigrants tend to cpme to this country when they are young," he said; Lattnoa nlso tend to Have larger families: than other groups In East Palo Alto's Hispanic population soared from more than 8,500 In 1990. to more than 17,300 In 2000,.

according to census figures. At the same time, the city's while and Aslan populations remained steady, while the1 number of African-Americans dropped from to 6, 796- Almost a third too young to get drivers licenses By Justin Journal STAFF WWTER Bucking a state trend toward a graying population, East Palo Alto got younger In '90a, remains the Bay Area's moat youthful city, with a tender median age of only 25.8, according to Census 2000 figures released Wednesday. Over the-last decade the city shaved nearly a year otT Its median age; which is a whopping 34 years younger than the Bay Area's most elderly town Yountville In Napa County. I East Palo Alto Mayor Myrtle Walker said the city housing market has been driving the age dip In the city's popula-L tkm, which is 29,508. Housing affordaUs We had (rilbrdable up until the past.

couple years, so families could raise ri children here, unlike other 'y places in San Mateo County Where the rents were East Palo Alto schools have felt the effects the city's youthfulness, said Charlie Knight, superintendent of the Ravenswood School District. The student population grew by ubout 200 a year through the 90s, which led the dlstrlct to add 40 to 50 portable classrooms at schools In East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Knight said she doesn't, ex-pect similar growth over, the coming years because housing priced have started to shoot up In Palo Alto, forcing many.young parents to move to more affordable areas. To meet the needs East Palo Alto's burgeoning youth population, Walker has asked the City Council to create a youth services department. tp deal with Jobs, housing and -other issues facing young people lii the Looking to future Walker said'- East Palo Altos youthfulness Is a challenge, but also an opportunity.

"With such a young population, we are really looking to the Allure," she said. "We have an opportunity to build a whole new city." environment" he said. A RfAGG I Nil EG NT FREE REPORT reveals what Ihe Insurance companies don't want you to Imow. Was your car Injured? You may Le, too! It may be weeks, months or even years before yoty experience pain, stiffness, headaches, even arthrfttef-Dont sottto your ease until you read our free report. i A ji i Sivil War bail to rms after 136 years 1 rAffvwna FREMONT On May 26, a month and a half Robert E.

Lee surrendered db'tnysaeS Oj-aftt EdmUiki Smith surrendered the 'of the Confederate forces, jfng the Civil War to an ty 136 years later, the. lue and gray wlU. clash again fhen Civil War Days begins Sat-irday at Ardenwood Historic. Hundreds of infantry, cavalry artillery will hold simulated In the farm's fields and la. a The event Is sponsored by East Bay Regional Park Dia-: and the National Civil War on tl'if 1..

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Between battles. Visitors can' 1 Ihe Confederate, Union and JI4n camps, attend a fashion listen to a file and drum and watch a recreated field hospital in action. There, also wfll be tours of restored historic Patterson and Ardenwood's horse-drawn railroad. 1 The event, which has been Held fin several years, attracts several thousand, spectators, MacKay said. il j) ill ll A.

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Simulated battles will be at non and 5 Saturday and tnday. There will be a memo-r al service at 11 am. Monday, fallowed by a final battle at 1, Ardenwood Historic Funk at 34600 Ardenwood BhxL, IfvmonL Information: 1 (510) 1 6-0663. Mi n. le.

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