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Could Algae Be a Fuel?
posted 11:21 pm Thu August 14, 2008 - Charlottesville, VA
reporter: Margaret Clevenstine
posted by: Webteam
A fuel source that does not come from the Middle East and helps to clean up carbon monoxide emissions? It may sound too good to be true, but that's what UVA researchers are working on now and they're using algae to do it.
Assistant professors Lisa Colosi and Andres Clarens are testing to see if algae would be a cheaper, more efficient ingredient for biofuel. Right now, there isn't any scientific data comparing algae fuel to other types of biodiesel and oil. Colosi and Clarens hope to change all that.
Lisa Co, UVA Researcher - "We're trying to do it in a rigorous way to say here in Virginia, if we use Virginia algae and Virginia sunlight and the types of sunlight that Virginia produces how much could we produce here to offset our dependence on other types of oil."
Another benefit to using algae, it can feed off of carbon emissions from factories, and can use nutrients from waste water sediment.
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