Don't forget Tom that Cyclone has a Secret Investor who is pouring truckloads of cash into the company so they can build and deploy megawatt solar power systems.
Of course, when that prediction doesn't come true there will be some other announcement to divert attention. I think the next two unannounced Marks are the 8 and 9.
They had announced hiring electrical engineers. Yes, in the plural. I think it is to build a Cyclone engine mock-up with blinking lights and life-like sounds to assist in misleading new investors. But, conceivably, they could hook a generator to an engine, connect it to the grid, load it up and measure actual power production. That could represent dyno testing.
Will anything like that happen? Of course not. A couple years ago now they posted a photo of a rental electrical load bank on Facebook and said their Danish defense contractor was going to test the 10 kW genset and all results would be published. Remarkable was the fact that after more than 10 years claiming they were building engines to run generators, they had never bothered to buy any instrumentation to measure the power output of the generators. The way they squandered millions in investors' money meant the lack of instrumentation wasn't due to any budget limitation.
The dyno unit shown in some of the videos they've posted is a water brake design. These are really cheap, and they don't provide any torque load at lower RPM. The primary market for them is for inexpensively testing the peak output of engines that turn several thousand RPM. All of Harry Schoell's claims about low speed torque are pure fiction as Cyclone has never had the equipment to load engines at low speed and measure the torque produced. (Not to mention that loading a Cyclone engine with the claimed starting torque would destroy all the engine bearings within the first revolution, and probably break the connecting rods, too.)
Their former chief technical advisor over on the steam car board once mentioned Cyclone found it much easier to just make up test results than to actually do the testing. I also recall him saying something about Harry Schoell doing a cocktail-napkin sketch and calling it a finished engineering design.
It will be interesting to see how this megawatt solar scam plays out. They promised engines built before the end of this year, and installed system running in Q1 2019. Of course the promised delivery date for the first 2 Mark 5 engines was January 2010. Yes, the engines that have been in "final testing before shipment" for at least three and a half years now.
Cyclone has never publicly demonstrated a working engine. The land speed record car only needed an engine to run for a few minutes, yet it's never been tested. Solar has been a claimed market for Cyclone right from the beginning, yet they've never demonstrated a working solar collector. But now they are going to design, build, test, install and start up a 3 megawatt solar installation that can generate full power for 72 hours on stored heat. All within the next seven months.
I also haven't decided if Harry Schoell is seriously mentally ill or is just a pathological liar and con artist.
When (if?) the Q2 report comes out it will mention just how much money they've gotten from the Secret Investor. That 180 day due diligence period would have ended in July so the outcome should be mentioned in the Subsequent Events section of the report.
Let the excuses for the failure of this system begin!
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