The 30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010
Today, subscriber voting begins for the 30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010.
Whether you vote or just read for interest, it’s our biggest all-in-one company and technology packed issue of all time. In all, 149 companies were nominated in 19 categories.
Categories are:
(Micro) Algae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms (20)
(Macro) Algae technologies (5)
Biobutanol technologies (4)
Biodiesel systems (2)
Cellulosic ethanol (35)
Consolidated Bioprocessing (2)
Chemical re-forming and hydroprocessing technologies (7)
Direct microbial conversion to fuels (6)
Electrofuels (13)
Engine technologies (3)
Enzyme technologies and platforms (6)
Fischer-Tropsch technologies (2)
Genetic and breeding platforms for feedstock transformation (7)
Pyrolysis (19)
Renewable chemicals (5)
Salt-tolerant feedstocks (2)
Small scale systems and microfuelers (2)
Waste to energy and symbiotic (“co-located”) systems including gasification (11)
What is a Transformative Technology?
A transformative technology is a game-changer – a technology that does not improve but rather alters the bioenergy landscape – offering breakthroughs in yield, fuel economy, timeline, scale, land use, emissions reduction, or cost.
How do Transformative Technologies differ from the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy?
First, university and national lab projects are eligible. Second, some “hot” companies are best known for rapid scaling of established technologies, rather than for development of transformative technologies. Third, strategic investors appear in the 50 Hottest rankings whereas their R&D partners, that are developing advanced technologies, generally appear here.
Rules:
1. Only subscribers may vote, and once only.
2. You can vote for a category of technologies, or individual organizations, or any combination as you see fit. If you vote for a category, every company in that category will receive a vote.
3. You may vote for as many companies as you like, but you must vote for a minimum of 10 organizations, or at least two categories.
4. You may write-in votes for organizations not otherwise listed, as you see fit.
5. The Top 30 vote-getters as of 5pm ET Friday June 19th will be recognized as winners.
6. All decisions on winners will be made by Biofuels Digest and all decisions are final.
Vote Here
The ballot can be found here.
Links for More Information on Nominees
Brief profiles of each nominated organization/technology are here, by category and by name, with links to further information. I hope that you enjoy the opportunity to learn about transformative biofuels technologies, and to share your opinion and ratings.
Algae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton
Algaeventure Systems
Algenol
Ames National Lab project
Aurora Biofuels
Australias Murdoch U, U of Adelaide project
Idaho Sustainable Energy
Kumho Petrochemical
National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB)
National Technological University (Argentina)
OriginOil
PetroAlgae
Photon8
Phycal
Pond Biofuels
Scottish Bioenergy
Sapphire Energy
Seambiotic
Solazyme
Solix
UK Carbon Trust Algae Consortium
(Macro) algae – seaweed technologies
Korean Institute for Industrial Technology
Philippine Government project
Chilean Economic Development Corporation
DuPont – BioArchiecture Lab
SES – Seaweed Energy Solutions
Biobutanol technologies
Butamax
Cobalt Technologies
Gevo
Green Biologics
Biodiesel systems
SBI Bioenergy
Mcgyan process
Cellulosic ethanol – US
Abengoa Bioenergy
ADM
AE Biofuels
American Process
Bluefire Ethanol
Buckeye Technology
Bye Energy
Coskata
DDCE
Fiberight
Haldor Topsoe
ICM
IneosBio
Logos Technologies
POET
Range Fuels
Trenton Fuel Works
Verenium
ZeaChem
Cellulosic ethanol – International
BioTFuel
Butalco
Chempolis
COFCO
Greenfeld Ethanol
HCL CleanTech
Inbicon
Iogen
Lignol
Praj
SEKAB
St1 Biofuels
TMO Renewables
UPM-Kymmene
Weyland / Statoil Hydro
Woodland Biofuels
Consolidated Bioprocessing
Mascoma
Qteros
Chemical re-forming and hydrotreating technologies
AltAir
Chemrec
Dynamic Fuels
Mitchell Technology
Neste Oil
UOP
Virent
Direct microbial conversion to fuels
Amyris
Joule Unlimited
LS9
Naturally Scientific
NCSU/Georgia project
University of Cincinnati project
Electrofuels
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Pennsylvania State University
Ohio State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-butanol
Ginkgo BioWorks
Harvard Medical School- Wyss Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology-biodiesel
North Carolina State University
OPX Biotechnologies
University of California Los Angeles
Medical University of South Carolina
Columbia University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Engine technologies
AHL-Tech
FORD Bobcat
Ricardo
Enzyme technologies
Codexis
Dyadic
Genencor
Novozymes
University of York project
Louisiana Tech enzyme project
Fischer-Tropsch technologies
Choren
ClearFuels/Rentech
Genetic and breeding platforms for feedstock transformation
Ceres
Chromatin
NCSU Duckweed project
SG Biofuels
Synthetic Genomics
Thomas Jefferson University project
Transalgae
Pyrolysis
Anellotech
The Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials
Desert Sweet Biofuels.
Dynamotive
Envergent
InfoSpi
Iowa State
KiOR
KIT, Lurgi
Mississippi State
QinetiQ
Renewable Energy Institute International
Remediation Earth
RTI
Sunset Ridge
Sustainable Power
Tolero Energy
TSTO
UK Carbon Trust
Renewable chemicals
BioEnergy International
GlycosBio
Mantra Ventures
Segetis
SynGest
Salt-tolerant biofuels
Energy Allied International, The Seawater Foundation and Global Seawater
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Boeing, Etihad Airways and UOP Honeywell
Small scale systems and microfuelers
eMicrofueler
KL Energy
Waste to energy and symbiotic (“co-located”) systems including gasification
British Airways/Solana
Enerkem
Fulcrum Bioenergy
Genesyst
LanzaTech
S4
Standard Alcohol
Terrabon
ThermoChem Recovery International
W2Energy
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