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. There are ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The vial of fuel that Andre Boehman and Bradley Cardinale are trying to fill would fit four times into a two-liter bottle of Faygo Redpop. The University of Michigan professors and ...

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 fuel, ...

It wasn’t snow that closed the Pathways to Technology magnet high school Friday. It was algae. Algae was found in school bus fuel tanks, prompting a school bus company to ground 150 buses. Algae clogs ...

To the list of things that started in the Bay Area (blue jeans, Sourdough French Bread, fortune cookies) you can now add automobile fuel made by algae. On Tuesday, four service stations in Oakland, ...

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 domestically grown ...

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 successfully ...

One of the hazards of driving diesel cars has been the threat of accidentally filling the tank with gasoline. I know of several diesel-car owners who have generously lent their cars to friends, only ...

The vial of fuel that Andre Boehman and Bradley Cardinale are trying to fill would fit four times into a two-liter bottle of Faygo Redpop. The University of Michigan professors and their team will try ...