Timelines and money, pure fantasy. Who're they kidding?
Hey Buddy, you have just got to love how much further they drift from reality with each new "project". It also makes it easy to spot company shills … they're the ones who post positive comments; rational folks would see just how crazy this stuff gets.
Let's take these new 1500 HP engines. Cyclone's financials already show that they are less than broke, no real assets and tons of liabilities. The $10,000 you talk about couldn't buy a Corvette crate engine … which was mass produced in a factory and thus relatively cheap per unit. It certainly wouldn't touch a small locomotive Diesel engine, which is about what Cyclone is claiming they are building. Obviously, having an engine custom built to your specifications is going to be many times more costly than buying something already in the marketplace.
Now, let's look at timing. As noted, a decent diesel genset has something like 30,000 hours between overhauls. That's something like 3 years and 5 months of continuous, non-stop operation. Does it make sense that anyone can do a complete testing plan and certify an engine of that nature acceptable in just a few months?
Let's go back to money again. Number 2 fuel oil has about 139,600 BTU per gallon. Let's assume the alleged Cyclone engine is 25% efficient --- which ain't a bad level of efficiency given that steam engines have to dispose of 947 BTU per pound of steam in the form of the latent heat of vaporization. That would mean that they could realize about 34,900 BTU from every gallon of Number 2 they purchased. One horsepower equals 2,544.43 BTU per hour...taking the realizable BTU and dividing by this number means that it is possible to produce about 13.7 horsepower for every gallon of fuel burned in an hour. Dividing our stated 1500 horses by 13.7 tells us that we need 109 gallons an hour to run at rated load. The average price of Number 2 is currently in the neighborhood of $2.89 a gallon, meaning it's going to cost about $316 in just fuel bills to run an engine at rated load for only an hour. The wonderful $10,000 Cyclone received would permit about 30 hours of run tine out of the 30,000 we would expect an engine to need before being overhauled.
So, even if Cyclone had a magic wand capable of mystically creating an engine from thin air using nothing more than Cyclone's blueprints --- and assuming they had free testing facilities, supplies and labor --- the money they just received is good for about 1/10th of one percent of a normal engine life expectancy...
Forget magic wands, these folks must be waving magic telephone poles!
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