InfinitEnergy public-private partnership
Date: Sunday, February 15, 2004 @ 10:35:02 UTC
Topic: General
Savannah Lands Big Role in New Energy Development
Local Ga. Tech campus to spearhead effort
By Jason Harvey
TBR Staff
With the help of money from Uncle Sam, coastal Georgia business and education leaders say they're taking steps to make Savannah one of the nation's centers for alternative energy research, development and commercialization.
The National Science Foundation has given the Georgia Institute of Technology three years of seed funding totaling $600,000 to establish InfinitEnergy, a public-private partnership between state and local groups designed to stimulate innovation and economic development in the field of alternative energy.
The new West Chatham campus of Georgia Tech-Savannah will host InfinitEnergy, said program leaders, with the school serving as a "community-based" laboratory that helps to transfor knowledge into real world applications.
Dr. David Frost, director of Georgia Tech-Savannah and co-principal investigator of InfinitEnergy, said the program would promote economic development in the Savannah area, particularly within the high paying industries of knowledge and alternative energy...
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