Rentech vs BlueFire Renewables: Who's the Best?

August 14, 2011 |

Background: This is a first round, West Regional match-up between #7 seed Rentech and #10 seed BlueFire Renewables in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest.

Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here.

The winner gets: Most votes advances to the second-round (round of 32), and a shot at the Biofuels Sweet Sixteen.

The loser: Goes home.

Laurels: Rentech is the 25th ranked company in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. BlueFire is currently #24.

The match-up: The battle of the shovel readies. BlueFire is readying a project in Mississippi converting MSW to fuels and chemicals, using an acid hydrolysis process. Rentech is commercializing a Fischer-Tropsch fuels and chemicals system that it will demonstrate in the next year and commercialize in Canada among other locations.

Rentech’s complete Hot 50 / Transformative Technologies profile is here.

Category: Fuels

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