Cool Fuel

COOLFUEL explores alternative, eco-friendly fuels. Watch as Shawn, joined by his dog Sparky, and the crew make their way across the country using only alternative fuels.

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COOLFUEL Episode: Cow-Power and Solar Power

Explorer Shaun Murphy travels to dairy-land and then heads to the desert. He starts out in Green Bay, WI and powers his three electric bikes from Lambeau Field to downtown Chicago. At the start, he meets up with a raucous + READ MORE

COOLFUEL Episode: Sugarcane and Hempoline

Explorer Shaun Murphy heads to Florida in search of sugarcane to travel from South Beach to Central Florida on his motorbike. Shaun visits the Everglades to check out the local wildlife and picks up a solar-powered boat to cross Lake + READ MORE

COOLFUEL Episode: Food and Veggie Oil

Got manure? Better yet, can manure-producing-power get Shaun & Sparky 400 miles from Green Bay to Chicago? Their quest for fuel takes them from a dairy farm to an organic bison ranch, but when they run out of cow-power they + READ MORE

COOLFUEL Episode: Geothermal and Bio-diesel

The crew head out from Maroon Bells, the most photographed place in America, and they're on the hunt for water to produce their power! Shaun gets his hands on the El Chopper motorbike and powers it with water. The RV + READ MORE

COOLFUEL Episode: Garbage and Wind Power

Soybeans make milk. Maybe tofu. But fuel? 800 miles worth of fuel! Shaun, Sparky & the crew try to make it from Oregon to the beautiful San Juan Islands at the Canadian border with crushed soybeans in the tank. Shaun + READ MORE

COOLFUEL Episode: Ethanol and Micro-Hydro Power

Shaun, Sparky & the COOLFUEL crew pack their soybean-powered RV, and start off in San Francisco, finding out if they can make it all the way to Oregon using just geothermal power. They try an electric motorcycle and the fastest + READ MORE

COOLFUEL: The People (And Dog) Who Fuel The Mission

Shaun Murphy is the force behind COOLFUEL, and the man who brought it from idea to reality. Previously a host, producer and writer of the Discovery Channel's Totally Wild series, as well as executive producer, writer, and director of National + READ MORE

Alternative Fuels for COOLFUEL: Some You Know, And Some You Don't

To make it the 16,000 miles across the country without gasoline, Shaun, Sparky, and the COOLFUEL team get pretty creative at finding fuel alternatives. It takes some serious effort at times, but they end up polluting less, and definitely spending + READ MORE

COOLFUEL: Hitting the Road Without Gasoline on Planet Green TV

Traveling cross-country isn't usually the most eco-friendly of tasks, but if done without gasoline, it can become one--and that is precisely what Shaun Murphy and the COOLFUEL team have done. They shunned gasoline and turned instead to creative alternatives to + READ MORE