Joule Unlimited vs Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol: Who's the Best?

Background: This is a first round, East Regional match-up between #7 seed Joule Unlimited and #10 seed Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol 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: Joule is the 22nd ranked company in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. Dupont Danisco currently holds down #6.

The match-up: Joule has been running hot all year – heading for commercialization of its technology as soon as 2012 with a full-scale demonstration. DDCE has been running hot for several years, and is aiming to deploy its first commercial facility in Iowa – how the merger of Dupont and Danisco will affect the original JV is unclear, but it certainly will only help.

Deep dive data on Joule and DDCE

Joule Unlimited Technologies’ complete Hot 50 / Transformative Technologies profile is here.

Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol’s complete Hot 50 / Transformative Technologies profile is here.