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Turning algae into fuel?
Building a windmill on Tangier Island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay? Setting wind turbines miles off the Virginia Beach coast?
The ideas might sound futuristic, but they are the primary alternative-energy projects that the state will support with $1.5 million in research grants, to be awarded next week.
The grants represent the first investment by state government in the work of a newly formed group of university scientists, called the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium.
