SAN FRANCISCO — Big Oil took a small but significant hit Tuesday when Bay Area motorists began filling up their gas tanks with algae, becoming the first private citizens in the world to use a ...

No, you can’t simply pump the green scum that forms on your swimming pool into your gas tank, but motorists in the San Francisco area now can fill up on a new biofuel derived from algae.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area have become the first motorists in the nation to fill up their gas tanks with an algae-based biofuel. The fuel, known as Biodiesel ...

Horton said most diesel vehicles could run on 100 percent algae fuel, but doing that would result in higher costs to the consumer. Also, he said, many automakers oppose allowing a mix higher than ...

Algae for your fuel tank Date: January 18, 2012 ... Says Lercher: "The products are diesel-range saturated hydrocarbons that are suitable for use as high-grade fuels for vehicles." ...

Various combinations of algal species were grown in 80 cattle tanks at the University of Michigan's E.S. George Reserve near Pinckney. Photo provided l Daryl Marshke/Michigan Photography. ANN ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on a way to make renewable diesel fuel from algae.A new $2 million grant from the Department of Energy will help those researchers ...

REDWOOD CITY (CBS/AP) -- Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area were the first in the nation to fill up their gas tanks with an algae-based biofuel. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the ...

Dieselcraft’s Technol 246 is a fuel additive that penetrates and dissolves diesel sludge buildups to solve filter plugging problems in diesel fuel tanks.

All across the state, wherever you find the algae blooms you find "a lot of old (tanks) that were installed back in the '60s," he said. Experts say septic tanks more than 30 years old are more ...

Towards Quantitative Conversion of Microalgae Oil to Diesel-Range Alkanes with Bifunctional Catalysts, B. Peng, Y. Yao, C. Zhao und J.A. Lercher, Angewandte Chemie, 2011 – Doi: 10.1002/ange ...