Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

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They used to brag about having "over 1000 hours" of accumulated engine running time. Let's suppose that for once they were honest and didn't exaggerate that number. Over 15 years that's just over one hour of engine running time per week. There were approaching a dozen engine models announced, and no doubt each was rebuilt many times after it self-destructed shortly after each startup.

And then we have all the videos posted that show engines running poorly, for an average of a minute, with no load being applied.

A quick search turned up this discussion board post from "Brownie" who was something like chief "engineer" at Cyclone:

BROWNIE , 07-28-2010 03:20 PM
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Harry Schoell and Brownie of Cyclone Power Technologies are building a boat and engine to set a modern day ‘World Steam Powered Water Speed Record’. The 21’ DDC hull will have one of the new 100 HP Mark Five radial Cyclone engines. The engine, termed “a heat regenerative, self contained, water lubricated, 6 cylinder, environmentally friendly, high efficiency, multi-fuel steam engine” is a modern day offshoot of the technologies of a hundred years ago.
The boat will be driven by Cyclone executive, Frankie Fruge, and named for her. The craft will be called “GG Mom”, for Great Grand Mom, and will be pit-crewed by three generations of her female offspring.
The existing record is 45 mph, set in 1903 by C.W. Flint. Frankie expects to go about 60 mph, which will break the steam boat record. It also will be the fastest boat on algae fuel, waste oil, or any one (or more) of a variety of non-imported biofuels. The date for the attempt will be announced soon, as will the date for the recovery of the Steam Land Speed Record, using the same engine type. A group of British racers recently broke the record set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906. They reached about 150 mph with a large streamliner on the salt flats. An identical Cyclone engine to GG Mom’s will power Chuk Williams streamliner.

That was more than 11 years ago, and the boat has yet to move one foot propelled by a Cyclone engine.

So yeah, Frankie talking about engine production as if it had any relationship to reality demonstrates pure criminal fraudulent intent. Any new money that comes into Cyclone will end up just like all the previous money - maybe a little spent to keep up an appearance of doing some R&D, but the majority disappearing without any explanation.

That boat is an example. They never admitted how much was spent on it, but later the amount of "equipment" in the balance sheet jumped by $70 or 80,000. Of course they couldn't just buy a used race boat hull, or even a new one, they had to contract with Schoell Marine to custom build one at an exorbitant price. So this boat did serve its purpose of funneling investor cash into Harry and Frankie's pockets. Real commercial product development didn't have anything to do with Cyclone's M.O.