Cyclone also has never publicly demonstrated a working engine.
In 10 years they've generated accumulated operating losses of $23 MILLION. That's in addition to all the derivative losses.
Their flagship product, the Mark 5, was first promised for delivery to a customer 4 years and 9 months ago. There's no evidence it has ever worked as advertised, and no reasonable expectation it ever will.
The WHE-25, after years and millions spent at Cyclone for development, was sent to Ohio State last year. They promptly threw out the entire Cyclone design and came up with the WHE-DR.
Even so, Phoenix Power set a milestone of the WHE running under load for 200 hours. Ohio State has been trying for a year now and has not achieved even that short of a life.
After paying something like half a million in license fees for the S-1, Renovolia went to Stirling engines.
We're told that Raytheon got great results from testing Cyclone engines, but we've never been told what the tests or results were. Raytheon has also not come back.
The S-2 genset for the Army passed the acceptance tests, but again, what were they? Why is there no information about the S-2 on the Cyclone website? Why don't they make more of them?
This isn't a case of a company that has been building successful engines for decades offering their latest revision of a successful design to some lead customers. Cyclone has never delivered an engine that has been publicly witnessed as working. Everything they've built so far has been completely unmarketable.
Expecting the first 10 prototypes of a brand new design (the Mark 1) to work given that nothing they've ever done before has worked is pretty optimistic.
But, on the other hand, Harry Schoell got patents, built a bunch of non-functional mock-up engines, sold stock, won awards, sold licenses and even sold Mark 5 engines before he ever tried to build the first one. Expecting the Mark 1 (whatever it is) to work properly is just the way his ego works.
Someone on the steam car club forum once told him "Stop telling us what it's GONNA do, tell us what it HAS done."
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