25,750 kilometres on biofuel...including industrial hemp
CoolFuel is a new TV series that features an Australian adventurer by the name of Shaun Murphy (and Sparky, his Jack Russell sidekick) in some 18 episodes as he and crew traverse the United States using various vehicles all exclusively operated with biofuels.
As reported in the Toronto Star: "In eight months, they cover 25,750 kilometres and 30 states using bio-diesel, pure vegetable oil, corn whiskey, hot rocks (thermal energy), and, yes, cow dung and Froot Loops. Just about anything but gasoline."
Supposedly the show has received quite a bit of press. Along the way CoolFuel received help from Daryl Hannah who hosts Murphy during one episode at her fully sustainable ranch. In Episode 8, the team takes a Chevy S10 pickup truck running on hempoline (supplied by a Canadian company) across the Southern United States...as the CoolFuel web site recounts:
George Washington farmed it. Henry Ford built a car out of it. Levi Strauss made their original jeans from it. So why not fuel up with it? The COOLFUEL crew use hemp oil to make Hempoline, but their first batch is a disaster. It looks like horse manure. They manage to get moving, taking a journey through Montgomery and Selma, Alabama. Shaun sings with George Jackson (Ol’ Time Rock ‘n Roll) and the crew gets their hands on an $80,000 jet turbine engine truck. Refusing to use fossil fuel, the COOLFUEL Crew tries to run the truck on hempoline. Heading to Mississippi, the locals can’t believe the fuel; the crew can’t believe they’ve made it to the Deep South.
CoolFuel may just catch on in a big way...helping raise industrial hemp and biofuel awareness.