Coskata vs INEOS Bio: Who's the Best?

Background: This is a second round, East Regional match-up between #1 seed Coskata and #8 seed INEOS Bio, 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 Sweet Sixteen (round of 16), and a shot at the Biofuels Elite Eight.

The loser: Goes home.

Laurels: Coskata is the 8th ranked company in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. INEOS Bio is currently #43.

The match-up: It’s a blood match between two companies embroiled in a legal dispute over trade secrets relating to the INEOS Bio technology. Here’s your chance to weigh in.

Coskata took 66 percent of the votes in its first round battle with Range Fuels. INEOS Bio prevailed over Dynamic Fuels 57-43.

Coskata is a biology-based renewable energy company whose low-cost platform technology allows for the production of fuels and chemicals from a wide variety of input materials, including biomass, agricultural and municipal wastes, and other carbonaceous material, at a low cost.

INEOS Bio is on the verge of commissioning (next year) its 8 Mgy cellulosic fuels and chemicals plant in Vero Beach, FL, using municipal and agricultural wastes as a feedstock.

Deep dive data on Coskata

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