A Day in the Life of Biofuels, 2011

In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the winners of its “Day in the Life of Biofuels” photo contest, and published the winning entries.

Clink on the individual links below to view the winning images.

In addition, 50 second prizes were awarded as well as 100 Third Prizes. All winning entries will be published in the Day in the Life e-book, downloadable for free by Digest subscribers.

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Grand Prize and First Prize winners have been published at biofuelsdigest.com, with Second and Third Prize winners being published throughout the Day in the Life of Biofuels week.

Digest editor Jim Lane, in reviewing the winners, wrote:

“In the summer and fall of 2011, Biofuels Digest readers snapped and shared photos of the world around them – the vibrant, transformational world of biofuels and bio-based materials.

“The people you see in these linked pages are the foot-soldiers of the bio-based revolution, moving modern society off fossil fuels, rebuilding rural communities, restoring economic growth, and diversifying the energy and wealth mix wherever they go.

“They are farmers, scientists, homemakers, engineers, teachers, students, drivers, postal workers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and construction workers. They are in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Australia and North America.

“Since 2000, bio-based industries have created many thousands of good-paying jobs, while bringing economic revival and energy securities to their communities. We all can be thankful for the blessings that flow from well-paid work, and the Digest is glad to publish these images as a part of the US Thanksgiving holiday.

“Biofuels Digest is delighted to share the best of the reader submissions, as a visual record of the transformation away from fossil fuels that is taking place in  global society.”

The Grand Prize for photo of the year was awarded to Samuel Shiroff, for an image of an Indonesian woman preparing dinner on her Protos Plant Oil Cookstove (built by the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group), using jatropha oil.

Ten first prizes were awarded to:.

John Greenler, for his image of wheat straw fresh out of a baler in Southern Wisconsin;

John Rae (Art Direction: Tony Catlin, Fassino Design) for an image of a Qteros fermenter at the Company’s facility in Marlborough, MA;

John Thompson, for an image from the V8 Supercars Australia series, utilizing Sucrogen BioEthanol E85;

Elizabeth L. King, for an image of Nathan VanVelzen pumping waste vegetable oil from a local restaurant for AES’s biofuelproject.com.

Leidy Wagener, for an image of Blue Marble Biomaterials chemical engineer Adrienne Bull;

Tom Riding , for an image of an alligator at PetroAlgae’s Demonstration Facility in Florida;

Doug Dugas, for an image of chemical engineering student Bridget Meaux;

Codexis, Inc,. for an image of a Codexis researcher monitoring  a ten-liter fermenter facility in Redwood City, CA;

Propel Fuels, for an image of Propel Fuels CEO Matt Horton and family “Fueling Change” at a neighborhood Propel station in Redwood City, CA;

and DOE photographer Roy Kaltschmidt for an image of researcher Jana Mueller with arabidopsis plants at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, CA.