Oh boy. Harry's BS is thick and deep.
30,000 hour bearing life? 5,000 hour life on rings and seals? Of course, that would apply to an engine running at full load.
We do know two things for sure:
1) Phoenix Power contracted to pay $150,000 when a WHE engine ran continuously under part load for 200 hours. This payment was never made according to Q2Power's latest filings. Keep in mind engineers at Ohio State University redesigned the engine and Q2Power burned through $6 million and it still couldn't run for 200 hours. Q2Power has never demonstrated the engine working or released any information at all on what the real engine performance was. They've given up on being in the steam engine business.
2) Combilift contracted to pay $300,000 when Cyclone demonstrated two Mark 5 engines running under part load for 50 hours each. This also hasn't been paid out, so we know no Mark 5 has run for 50 hours. Similar to Q2Power, Cyclone has never released any honest information on what engine performance really is.
In addition to that we know Ohio State redesigned the WHE to eliminate the spider bearing. At the time they predicted they would soon run an engine for 200 hours. Instead they discovered the water-lubricated bearings were the next major failure point. Ohio State didn't say how long the WHE engine was made to run, but it was nowhere near the 200 hour goal.
So the IBES people believe bearings will last 30,000 hours? I wonder if they really do believe this or whether they are also con artists pretending they believe what Harry says to scam their own investors and customers.
I also wonder if they are in one of those countries that cuts your hand off for thievery. One can hope.
