The Hottest fuels, feedstocks and processing technologies – as Hot 50 Competition gets underway
It’s just 40 days until we release the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings. As with last year, the voting process starts out with a short Reader poll.
What, in your view, are the Hottest fuels, feedstocks and processing technologies?
Results will be published in the Digest, and are included in the Selector’s Data Book, which profiles all the competing companies as well as providing industry data on hot trends.
We expect this to be a wide open competition, especially after, ooops! a couple of top-ranked companies didn’t get their registrations in this year. They’ll be eligible and on the ballot, but they’ll have to count on the Digest to update their data in the Selector’s Data Book, and that may tip the balance in another companies favor.
The 50 Hottest Companies. Who are the hottest companies in Bioenergy? Naval fuel behemoth Solazyme? The newly IPO’d Amyris or Codexis? The mysterious Joule Biotechnologies with its “fuel from thin air”? Cellulosic ethanol developers like POET, Mascoma or Abengoa? Algal fuel pioneers like Sapphire, Solix or Algenol? Renewable diesel producers like LS9, Virent or Dynamic Fuels? Waste-to-energy companies now getting serious traction like Enerkem or BlueFire Renewables? One of the many companies that repositioned to a duel fuels/chemicals strategy, like Cobalt Technologies, Gevo or Aurora Algae? Or strategic investors like BP, Shell or P&G? What about key intermediate technologies in enzymes or magic bugs from Qteros, Novozymes, Genencor, DSM, or Dyadic? Or even renewable chemicals pure-plays like OPX Biotechnologies, Verdezyne or Blue Marble Biomaterials?
Hottest Fuels: Do you think that ethanol still rules? Is biodiesel back? Are drop-in aviation fuels the hottest thing around, or drop-in diesel – or, do you like exotics like furfural or bio-hydrogen?
Hottest Feedstocks: Is Jatropha 2.0 the hottest feedstock, or algae? What about grasses and energy canes, or sugarcane itself? Is MSW the hottest, or agriculture residues – or even animal residues?
Hottest Processing Technologies: In processing technologies, will pyrolysis’ comeback take it to the top, or does ethanol fermentation or biodiesel transesterification still rule? What about “comeback kids” like the Fischer-Tropsch process, which is coming down in scale? Or the new Solar fuels from Joule? Or other types of microbial fermentation of biomass to fuel?
What are the hottest? You decide, and you can bet that this will weigh big when voters come to choose the very hottest companies. It all starts today with the poll on the Hottest Fuels, Feedstocks and Technologies, here.
Background and schedule for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy
A note on the Hot 50 voting: Selector Data books will begin shipping to selectors on November 1st, and selector voting will open up on that day. Reader voting will open up on November 15th. All voting will close on November 30th at 5pm ET, and results will be officially announced on December 7th at 9am ET. Reader voting is limited to our 23,000 newsletter subscribers, and selector voting is by invitation only.
However, based on the outstanding turn-out of high-level leadership in San Francisco next week, all attendees at Advanced Biofuels Markets will be eligible to vote as invited selectors.
50 percent of overall points totals for companies will come from reader voting, and 50 percent from invited selectors.
Access the Hottest Fuels, Feedstocks and Technologies poll here.
Category: Fuels
