during that special, our live studio audience voted danny kennedy of sungevity as their choice for planet forward's innovator of the year? danny has a company that leases solar panels. we also asked the online community to pick their innovator of the year. we'll follow both innovators, and show you the successes and challenges they face as they try to move the planet forward. and the choice of the online community is jamie hestekin and the university of arkansas team for their algae-to-butanol idea. >> we're looking at algae as a seed stock to make fuel. >> using bacteria we can produce butynol, carbon, hydrogen and hydrogen. >> since it could work with gasoline engines i can put this fuel in the car and make it go. >> we think that we can start competing with butynol compared to ethanol and we think we have a pretty cool process because of that. >> a pretty cool process that they hope will make money and really make it on the market. we'll follow jamie hestekin and his team and danny kennedy of sungenvity on nightly business report to see how they do. tune in with us, go yen line and see