Rentech vs BlueFire Renewables: Who's the Best?
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