Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

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Frankie's starting some new fraud. Over on Facebook she's posted some BS about how Cyclone engines will save us all from nitrogen oxides (NOx).

The "proof" links to a website that published Cyclone emissions claims in 2009.

How did they measure NOx emissions? Using EPA approved equipment and methods? Nope. Using ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials) standards and calibrated equipment? Nope. Using SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) standards and approved equipment? Nope.

Like everything else done by Cyclone's "genius", took a half-assed approach and misinterpreted the results. They used an exhaust gas tester that's used to tune propane forklift truck engines and has no approvals or certifications for automotive emissions testing.

How do they know they were able to burn diesel fuel more cleanly than a diesel engine? Because the manual that came with the tester had some NOx numbers for diesel engines. Diesel engines with emissions control equipment? Probably not.

Did the diesel fuel they burned produce any power via a Cyclone engine? Unlikely, as the engine was supposed to be the Mark 2 that they've never shown running, let alone powering anything.

As is typical with Frankie's manipulations, she is quoting numbers that don't mean what she pretends they do. In this case it's quoting NOx emissions in parts per million (ppm) of exhaust gas. The EPA, and emissions laws, don't use ppm. They use grams per mile for passenger vehicles and grams per kilowatt-hour for everything else.

See the problem for Cyclone? If they want to certify emissions for powering road vehicles, they need to build an engine that will move a car for miles so the grams per mile emissions can be measured. If they want to certify engines for non-road use, they need to run engines on dynamometers at full power for hours to measure the grams of emissions per kilowatt-hour (or per brake horsepower-hour) of operation.

Cyclone has never been able to build an engine that would spin long enough while producing any power at all to do a proper emissions test.

Under the law the manufacturer has to certify the engine, and also provide a warranty on its emissions performance over time. For passenger cars that's now 150,000 miles. Considering they've never been able to move that land speed record car one foot under the power of a Cyclone engine, that will be some trick.

Cyclone won't be able to legally sell fuel burning engines in the United States unless they provide these EPA certifications.

Of course, Cyclone can't sell any engines since they don't have any that produce any power for more than a few minutes before self destructing.

On Facebook Frankie is also crying about never having had any money to do engine development, ignoring the fact that Cyclone blew through over $25 million in investors' cash (plus more than $30 million more in derivative losses suffered by shareholders), with untold millions disappearing into Schoell Marine with nothing to show for it.

She's also pretending that sequestration of defense spending deprived them of money, when the facts are that Cyclone was years late in delivering that genset to the Army, and was paid in full when they did.

And according to Frankie, this was just the first of a series of frauds she will be putting out.