Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

[BuddyWhazhizname]

As always, insightful summary Tom.

Cyclone isn't the only time Harry Schoell has been down the path of inventing a new kind of engine. In the 1990s he invented the Schoell Rolling Radial Engine. It was also a failure, but one who's magnitude was limited by his own finances.

Harry never set foot in a college, but boldly predicted he could build a more thermodynamically efficient engine than anyone else in the last two centuries, and without knowing any thermodynamics.

Actually proving his theories worked by building engines and measuring their performance was for chumps. The "Schoell cycle" works perfectly because Harry Schoell says so. What further proof is needed?

And here we are 12 years later with no working engine ever publicly demonstrated.

Other than such minor details, there's hardly anything wrong with Cyclone's business model. Well, other than spending most of the money on things other than R&D, putting their efforts into speed record boats and cars, and telling investors in 2011 that all the technological problems had been "overcome".

The new Cyclone saviors are the Mark 1 and Mark 3 engines. The manufacturing of the first batch was, what, November 2014? Still no details, no photos, no videos of even a go-kart powered by one. So just as successful a design as all the other Cyclone engines announced over the years.

I just wonder if they will actually show something being powered by a Cyclone engine before folding.