Water can also harbor microbes, and may contaminate your fuel with something known as "diesel algae." The slimy, living, substance has a good chance of clogging up your fuel system relatively quickly.

also called "diesel bugs" or diesel algae. It doesn't take much for diesel to absorb water from the air and its surroundings, and those "diesel bugs" or microbial sludge could also clog the ...

The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...

The first phase was a success with algae growing in a pair of 5,000 gallon ponds even with overnight temperatures in the 20s. One of the most promising biofuel feedstocks in recent years has been ...

while green algae absorbs 40% more. Now, she wants to calculate whether or not pollution has a similar impact. Everything from wildfires to diesel engines and coal power plants produce soot ...