Making biofuels is messy, inefficient and costly. Huge portions of crops reminiscent of maize and soyabeans should be grown, harvested and processed earlier than their power, accrued slowly by pure photosynthesis, will be put to make use of. Nate Ennist of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) on the College of Washington, in Seattle, thinks that artificial proteins can increase the speed of return.
