About Gas 2.0
Gas 2.0 is dedicated to offering insight, analysis, resources, and personal experiences rooted in one unifying goal: moving beyond petroleum-based fuels.
Gas 2.0 is part of GO Media, which was acquired by “Apollo project incubator” Virgance last fall.
Gas 2.0 is funded soley by banner advertisements, and receives no funding from special interest groups, corporations, or anyone else, although we’re occasionally flown out to cover events (with no strings attached, of course).
We’re here strictly to report what we think is interesting and important. You can contact Gas 2.0’s writing team here: editor [at] gas2 [dot] org
Contributors:
Clayton B. Cornell
GM of GO Media. Former Lead Writer.
Clayton B. Cornell has been covering biofuels for the network since the beginning of 2007. He became a biofuel enthusiast in 2005 after experimenting with small-scale biodiesel production at Oregon State University. There he helped in the design and construction of biodiesel facility intended to convert waste cafeteria oil into fuel, for use in OSU campus vehicles.
Clayton also has extensive hands-on experience with diesel cars and trucks, including the practical use of biodiesel and straight-vegetable-oil (SVO) as alternative fuels. He’s personally converted 2 diesel trucks to run on straight vegetable oil, and for 2 years recycled used cooking oil from a local restaurant to power the first truck: a 1982 Datsun 720. He still owns a Canadian 1987 Toyota diesel pickup truck, but hasn’t used it since moving to San Francisco.
Clayton is now most interested in the electrification of transportation, and continues to cover the topic on Gas 2.0 as time allows.
Clayton has an Honors B.S. in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from the University of Utah. He also studied graduate level Toxicology for his work at Oregon State. On the side, Clayton likes to spend his time at the beach or in the mountains.
Nick Chambers
Editor at Gas 2.0
With an undergraduate degree in Geology from Beloit College, a Master’s in Crop and Soil Science from Oregon State University, and official certification as a Professional Soil Scientist, Nick likes to imagine that he may know some things about this crazy world in which we live… although he would be the first to admit that this is freely up for debate.
He currently works for the Oregon Department of Agriculture as a budget-is-tight-give-it-to-Nick-cause-he’ll-like-it jack-of-all-trades. In previous incarnations Nick has been a pesticide researcher, a pavement design specialist, an advertising industry cog, and a corporate plant waterer. At the Oregon Department of Agriculture Nick has been heavily involved in spearheading efforts to find ways to convert the leftover waste straw from the 500,000 acres of grass seed grown in the Willamette Valley each year into cellulosic ethanol.
Nick currently resides in Corvallis, Oregon and he may not know what the future holds, but he sure as heck enjoys a good homebrew.
Jerry James Stone
Contributor
Jerry is a web developer, part-time blogger and a full-time environmentalist. His crusade for all things eco started twenty years ago when he ditched his meat-and-potatoes upbringing for something more vegetarian-shaped.
He currently works at Care2 and also blogs over at TreeHugger. His passions include green tech, eco politics and smart green design. And while he doesn’t own a car anymore, he loves to write about those too.
Jerry studied at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. During his time there he was a DJ at the campus station KCPR and he also wrote for the campus paper.
Jerry currently resides in San Francisco, CA with his cat Lola.
Contact: @jerryjamesstone
Christopher DeMorro
Contributor
Christopher DeMorro is a simple soul who likes complicated things. His first love was a 1969 Mercury Cougar, “the gentleman’s muscle car”, and he spent his first years as a gear head under the hood, periodically blowing the motor so he could start wrenching all over again. He soon realized that there wasn’t much of a difference between his 40 year old motor and the cars of today, sparking an interest in alternative fuels and future modes of transportation. He also realized that just because you’re green, doesn’t mean you can’t go fast.
Chris believes that gear heads and green heads can coexist, and the performance potential in electric and bio-diesel vehicles offers exciting prospects for the future. He sees real innovation coming from backyard mechanics and garage inventors. He is still waiting to start his first “green” project car, although an old turbo-bio-diesel Mercedes stripped to the core with some meaty slicks sounds awful appealing…
Chris graduated with a B.A in English and a minor in Journalism from Central Connecticut State University. When he isn’t writing, he is spending time outdoors hiking and trespassing, because after all, only the best places are off-limits.
Photo Credit (top): Clayton B. Cornell
