University of Virginia Engineers Find Significant Environmental Impacts With Algae-Based Biofuel, Offer Alternative to Production.

Byline: University of Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- With many companies investing heavily in algae-based biofuels, researchers from the University of Virginia's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have found there are significant environmental hurdles to overcome before fuel production ramps up. They propose using wastewater as a solution to some of these challenges.

These findings come after ExxonMobil invested $600 million last summer and the U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that it is awarding $78 million in stimulus money for research and development of the biofuel. The U.Va. research, just published in the …