ASU pair's project makes 'Time' list of best inventions

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by Kerry Fehr-Snyder - Nov. 26, 2008 10:50 AM
The Arizona Republic

Alternatives to fossil fuel, from electricity to compressed natural gas, power automobiles, but when it comes to airplanes, only petroleum-based jet fuel is used.

A pair of Arizona State University researchers are trying to change that by harvesting and converting algae into kerosene-based jet fuel using a complex process they've been honing for years.

The algae-to-fuel project is headed by professors Milton Sommerfeld and Qiang Hu, who run a lab filled with bubbling vats of water and green algae.

Time magazine recently picked their work as No. 11 on its list of the top 50 inventions in 2008.

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