Alternative fuels' promise energized UGA researchers

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By Lee Shearer lee.shearer@onlineathens.com Story updated at 12:41 am on 8/24/2008

University of Georgia research that some considered interesting but marginal a few years ago has matured into cutting-edge science - and has landed UGA in the middle of a national quest to find alternative energy sources to power America's cars and homes.

About 90 UGA scientists now are working in research related to bioenergy - energy derived from plant or animal products rather than petroleum, said UGA engineering professor Ryan Adolphson.

Lately, some of those researchers have been pulling in millions of dollars in federal grants.

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