INEOS Bio vs Dynamic Fuels: Who's the Best?

Background: This is a first round, East Regional match-up between #8 seed INEOS Bio and #9 seed Dynamic Fuels 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: INEOS is the 43rd ranked company in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. Dynamic Fuels currently holds down #44.

The match-up: Dynamic Fuels has launched its 75 Mgy renewable diesel plant in Geismar, Louisiana, using animal residues as a feedstock. 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. Two companies that are engaged in the “making it, now” business as opposed to the “promise for later” business.