http://www.biofpr.com Innovation for a sustainable economy http://www.biofpr.com/common/images/thumbnails/100268.gif http://www.biofpr.com http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/760099/Power_to_the_people.html After a seemingly interminable wait, the first commercial cellulosic ethanol biorefineries are beginning to come on stream, with help from some new enzymes and a few power stations.   2010-07-15T00:00:00Z http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/760099/Power_to_the_people.html After a seemingly interminable wait, the first commercial cellulosic ethanol biorefineries are beginning to come on stream, with help from some new enzymes and a few power stations.   2010-07-15T00:00:00Z http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/748153/Apple_for_Amyris.html Farnesene is not just the fragrant molecule partly responsible for the smell of apples, but also potentially the cornerstone for a whole new range of renewable chemicals and biofuels. That's if the six new deals announced by the US biotechnology company Amyris are anything to go by.   2010-06-30T00:00:00Z http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/556685/EJLST_Free_Special_Issue_Jan_2010.html Fats and oils as renewable feedstock for the chemical industry... 2010-01-28T11:58:00Z http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/555085/Global_Sustainable_Biofuels_Project_Interview.html In this interview, Professor Bruce E. Dale and GSB Project Steering Committee Chair Professor Lee Lynd discuss the GSB project and large-scale bioenergy production... 2010-01-22T14:03:00Z http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/105001/Weighingup_wheat_as_a_feedstock.html European countries such as the UK grow several million tonnes of wheat surplus to food requirements every harvest. This surplus starch looks an attractive feedstock, but the recent sharp hike in grain prices has ignited the "food vs fuel" debate. Wheat straw for cellulosic ethanol or bioenergy might be preferred, especially if valuable specialty chemicals could be extracted first. The BioResources Group of the Society of Chemical Inductry (SCI) recently held a conference focusing on wheat as a feedstock. 2008-05-28T00:00:00Z http://www.biofpr.com/details/feature/102682/The_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly.html Some biofuels are less environmentally friendly than fossil fuels and might help to exacerbate climate change say a new Swiss study and two recent reports from the UK Royal Society and the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. 2008-01-28T00:00:00Z