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Re: bobbyknobb post# 27810

Tuesday, 12/11/2018 12:11:01 PM

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:11:01 PM

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Yep, it's always been part of the story. Tout "binding" LOIs and MOUs and all the "partners" and contracts and million dollar purchase orders in PRs to sell stock. And none of these big deals have amounted to anything.

They also early on set up that "Board of Advisors" with every reputable technical person in the field as members. This board had exactly one meeting, ever, and that was just to wine and dine the members. No advice was ever solicited from the advisors, nor was any accepted. It was just a stunt to sell stock based on the reputations of these individuals.

One of these advisors, a fellow by the name of Jim Crank, had gotten wise to the scheme and started calling Cyclone "Delusions-R-Us" and claiming that they have faked their test data.

Cyclone's website still lists most of the management "team" as people who have long since left Cyclone. But, hey, Frankie Fruge with her full time CFO and four business consultants works seven days a week, we are told, and how could she possibly have time to correct the misleading information on the website? Why, it might take several minutes to delete the bios of all these people who no longer work there.

President Frankie keeps mentioning her "new business model" coming to "fruition" where companies who actually know how to make things would build Cyclone engines. Cyclone would just collect fees. Only trouble has been, and tell me if you've heard this before, the "new" Mark 1, Mark 3, Mark 7 and Mark 10 engines don't work. Just like the "old" Mark 2, Mark 4, Mark 5, Mark 6, S-1, S-2, WHE and Genie engines.

And don't forget that new, 10 year $11 million contract to supply electricity at below market rates. Yes, it's like getting a contract to sell $20 bills for $10 each. Not all that hard to do. But Frankie is using that stunt to sell stock to the unsuspecting based on promises that Cyclone, who has never demonstrated an engine that can run for 10 hours without breaking down or having made any electricity from solar heat, will suddenly fix all their technical problems and deliver a complete, 3 megawatt solar power plant with three 1500 hp Mark 10 engines that will run continuously at full output for the next 10 years. All starting next quarter.

You're right Bobby, the list of Cyclone misrepresentations is very long, indeed. Each of the hundreds of PRs they've put out has made promises. The list of promises that have actually come true is much, much shorter.

For example, I once dug out 10 separate PRs they put out over a two year period about the waste heat generator they sold to Bent Glass Designs in Pennsylvania. The last claimed the system was started and generating electricity. Then the story went silent. Years later, buried in a financial filing they admitted the system was removed within a week and never replaced.

Another example, Topline, who Frankie called a "global automotive manufacturer" because they had one old, small, run-down factory in Michigan and a small alternator rebuilding shop in Argentina, was to redesign the WHE engine for mass production and deliver 10 prototypes to Cyclone. Big News, according to Frankie. Buried in financial filings years later they admitted Topline did supply the parts for 10 WHE engines, but Cyclone never provided any information about how those engines worked. I don't believe they ever released a photo of those engines. Given that they now state their inventory as near zero, those 10 wonderful engines must have been silently scrapped years ago.

There are a few videos out there of Harry talking about the engines. In every one he points to features on the fake mock-up engines and claims great performance of these "engines". He never gives any hint that all his claims are things he just made up and that nothing he says has been backed up by any testing of real engines.

In a 2008 video he tells the camera you will be able to buy Cyclone lawn mowers in 12 to 18 months. Other than the fake mower on display, Cyclone had never even tried to build a working lawn mower engine, let alone had a proven, working prototype. Yet he confidently tells the camera the Cyclone mower cuts grass silently.

The only Cyclone engine that we know has been run outside of Cyclone is the one at IBES Energy in Dubai. Their plan was to have household furnaces that burn wood and make steam to run a Cyclone Mark 3 engine turning a generator. Here's a video of it:



Yes, those three tiny light bulbs on the floor glowing dimly are the full output of the Cyclone generator. The closeup of the furnace control panel shows it is operating at 100% output. Imagine putting up with all that noise from the "silent" Cyclone engine for such a tiny amount of electricity.

After wasting more than a year of effort trying to make the Cyclone generator work, IBES folded at the end of last year and disappeared.

Sort of like most of Cyclone's "partners".

Doing things calculated to deceive investors is nothing new for Frankie Fruge and Harry Schoell.

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