About Gas 2.0
Gas 2.0 is dedicated to offering insight, analysis, resources, and personal experiences rooted in one unifying goal: to move beyond petroleum as a fuel source.
Gas 2.0 is part of the Green Options Media network and combines the experience and observations of Clayton B. Cornell (VegTruck.com), Max Lindberg (TheFuelsReport.com), Benjamin F. T. Jones (ecomodder), Nicholas Chambers, and others.
Gas 2.0 receives no funding from special interest groups, corporations, or anyone else. We’re here strictly to report what we think is interesting and important. You can contact Gas 2.0’s writing team here: gas2 [at] greenoptions [dot] com
Clayton B. Cornell
Managing Editor for Green Options Media
Lead Writer for Gas 2.0
clayton [at] greenoptions [dot] com
Clayton B. Cornell has been covering biofuels for GreenOptions.com 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 was involved in the construction of a biodiesel reactor designed to convert waste cafeteria oil into biodiesel 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. For the last 2 years he’s personally recycled used cooking oil from a local restaurant to power a 1982 Datsun 720, and currently owns a 1987 Toyota diesel pickup truck. Some of this experiment was documented on his personal blog vegtruck.com.
Clayton has an Honors B.S. in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from the University of Utah. He has also studied graduate level Toxicology and Oregon State University, and most recently left a program management position there in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology.
On the side, Clayton likes to spend his time at the beach or in the mountains. He’s been a professional river-guide, amateur beer judge, and world traveler. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
Benjamin F.T. Jones
Writer for Gas 2.0
benjamin.jones [at] ecomodder [dot] com
Benjamin has been interested in the environmental repercussions of transportation since he was 14, which is the same year he got started with mechanics. In high school he did some work in an auto shop and spent most of his free weekends modifying friends’ cars.
These days, Benjamin is a student of Japanese and Linguistics at Dartmouth College and will be graduating in 2010. He plans to continue studying after college and wants to teach when he graduates.
Even though Benjamin drives a 1991 Honda CRX, he is an avid cyclist and does most of his commuting on an old Schwinn Voyageur.
Max Lindberg
Writer for Gas 2.0
mdavidl [at] cox [dot] net
Max’s home state is Illinois, where he grew up in a little railroad/farming community named Galesburg. He lived on a small farm during high school and became very aware of nature and its wonders. He loved the outdoors, working with animals, plowing fields and harvesting crops.
Max’s broadcasting career took off after a stint in the Army during the Korean war. His first job was at my hometown radio station, a 250 watt “teapot” as he liked to call it. His first job was as an engineer, then the ham emerged and he became an announcer/newsman, graduating to a larger market several years later and a stint as a TV journalist/photographer.
Cold, wet weather led Max to the southwest, where he’s lived for most of the last 40 years. He took a couple of years out to have fun working as a private investigator in San Francisco, and a few years working in Las Vegas hotels and casinos. In all, it’s been quite a ride.
Max is married to Sally, the love of his life, and they have a comfortable apartment overlooking downtown Tucson. Max maintains two websites, The Lindberg Report.org and The Fuels Report. Very soon, he’ll have his own web radio station, Retro Jazz Radio. Stay tuned.
Nicholas Chambers
Writer for Gas 2.0
nchambers [at] mac [dot] com
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.
