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ABSOLUTELY FALSE. The PROVEN AOT, AOT XL, JOULE HEAT & ELEKTRA technologies are all here to stay as per the FACTS below. NEXT

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SANTA BARBARA, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/17/16 -- QS Energy, Inc. (OTCQB: QSEP) The following is a shareholder update from Greggory M. Bigger, Chief Executive Officer, QS Energy, Inc.

As we enter the final quarter of what has been a year of re-alignment for the global energy sector, I'd like to provide an update on how our business strategies have evolved to capitalize on this unique period of transformation and opportunity.

It gives me great pleasure to confirm that we are engaged in AOT provisioning discussions under Non-Disclosure Agreements with multiple crude oil producers and pipeline operators here in the U.S., Canada, and the Middle East. Thanks to the tireless efforts of our project manager John Valenti, QS Energy has expanded our engineering capabilities in response to requests for detailed technical AOT deployment proposals and to meet the growing scope of potential applications for our technology.

From the onset of the value engineering of AOT and continuing today in our ongoing design process to further optimize its performance, along with myself and our engineering team, John is currently managing our collaboration with Temple University, our supply chain system fabricators, and current industry partners in North America and the Middle East. I can state without hesitation that there is no one else as exceptionally qualified as John to manage these complex and intensely detail-oriented projects and for that reason he continues to have the fullest confidence of the Board and myself.

Although the AOT technology is now nearly fully engineered and it has become less important to staff engineering support internally, we continue to benefit greatly from these in-house resources and industry partnerships. Based on what we are currently working on with industry partners, both domestic and international, I've never been more optimistic about our technology, our industry, and our relationship with Temple University and the interrelated role they are playing in the commercialization of the AOT system.

We're especially appreciative of the outstanding laboratory testing and R&D capabilities of Temple University's Department of Physics and Dr. Tao's team. Since my tenure as Chief Executive Officer began, our focus on intensely managing expenses while maximizing the fiscal and human capital resources available to us has been integral to positioning our solutions for today's new energy industry landscape and will continue to be central to QS Energy's path forward in developing and commercializing the AOT system. The present supply chain can handle 20 unit orders at a time, however additional facilities are available for larger orders.

As you are aware, in the first quarter of this year the Company embarked on an acquisitions strategy targeting undervalued assets. Over the past six months we have issued four Letters of Intent to a select group of crude oil and natural gas producers that met our stringent criteria. One of these letters was issued to the U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court in Houston. While QS Energy is not abandoning this strategy, we are paying very close attention to crude oil pricing to gauge the most opportune time when conditions are optimally favorable to exercise a buy-side acquisition of cash flow positive entities.

It goes without saying that few industries are as prone to the "boom and bust" cycle of expansion and contraction as the oil and gas industry. Not unexpectedly, following the steep drop in oil spot prices in Q4 of 2014 the industry has been forced to recalibrate. Currently domestic and foreign markets appear to be slowly emerging from the price trough which triggered a widespread retrenchment and consolidation. While the U.S. rig count is gradually recovering, the tens of thousands of jobs lost will only return when spot prices recover more fully.

However, as we've documented previously, our experience has been that interest in AOT continues to grow as a result of this down cycle as producers and transporters adjust their operations to trim costs, remain solvent and survive until prices inevitably recover. By offering laboratory viscosity reduction tests of crude oil samples supplied by prospective customers, we've uniformly been able to predict efficiencies that can be gained in their pipeline infrastructures. In performing hydraulic analysis based on the specific crude oil being transported and the physical properties and operational metrics of the targeted pipeline, we are providing highly specific economic models of the bottom line benefits AOT can be expected to deliver.

We believe these factors explain why oil producers in many of the world's highest production regions are requesting proposals documenting how AOT can assist in their plans to increase crude oil flow volume and improve their ability to move hydrocarbons to market. Furthermore, as we have now definitively confirmed through commercial pipeline installations and the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) records we have collected as well as crude oil samples we have analyzed in the Temple laboratory, the value engineered AOT has documented efficacy across the full spectrum of grades of crude oil, from super heavy bitumen to super lightweight and ultralight condensates.

Our ongoing deployment of a customized AOT system on a condensate line and the well-documented efficiencies it is bringing to the movement of ultralight feedstock, a category of crude oil that is currently just under 18% of all U.S. output, is evidence of the versatility of our technology.

From our perspective, two overarching market influencers explain this heightened awareness of AOT and the measurable benefits it can potentially provide. Both of these trends are responsible for redrawing the map of oil and gas markets over the past two years and a third, the increasing focus on reducing emissions in the production and transport of hydrocarbons, holds the promise to deeply affect the oil sector in the coming years.

First, and perhaps most significantly, U.S. and foreign producers have now endured nearly nine quarters of depressed oil prices. Last week's uptick to just over $50, the first time that barrier has been eclipsed since July 2015, may portend a slow return to previous highs which could improve margins and re-ignite E&P activity. However, even a surge to the $60s or $70s would not alter some of the new realities facing the industry. The shakeout and re-alignment that began last year has resulted in a leaner and more efficient industry, a mindset that will persist for the foreseeable future. As a result, we continue to see an increased focus among pipeline operators on lowering Opex and squeezing out higher flow volume and stronger tariff income, all of which make a case for AOT deployment.

Secondly, the bright side of the continuation of OPEC's intransigent production policies has been an intense focus on infrastructure by virtually all members of the consortium. Many of these nations are almost entirely dependent on oil revenue and have been driven to near insolvency due to the global supply glut and downward pressure on prices. In response, member nations Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela, and petro-states such as Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador have embarked on ambitious and capital-intensive modernization programs, much of this aimed at harnessing efficiency-centric technologies which provide innumerable of opportunities for AOT and Joule Heat.

Throughout the year we have documented how these efforts to expand existing infrastructure and improve delivery to markets may offer a broad range of potential applications for AOT technology. For example, in an Update on AOT Opportunities in the Middle East and South America and an August 15 2016 news release we discussed that we have issued a Letter of Intent to a national oil company in Western Asia and have produced an AOT Case Study for a sole and separate operator in the Middle East based on hydraulic analysis using crude oil samples and pipeline data provided by this prospective customer.

Thirdly, as international markets gear up to develop economically viable alternative and renewable energy sources to supplement fossil fuel, political leadership here and overseas seems poised to resurrect the idea of incentives to reduce CO2 emissions and other forms of greenhouse gas. What's changed in the equation is that some of the talk about carbon tax credits and the ability to buy and sell them on an open market is now coming from within the energy industry. For example, ExxonMobil has been lobbying Washington to develop carbon tax credit legislation and foreign energy giants which include BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Total SA, Statoil ASA, and others, are calling for incentive programs they believe will remove uncertainty from the investment markets and bring order and transparency to the global push to reduce emissions.

Although we have long considered the "clean tech" aspects of our patent-protected industrial hardware worth noting as seen in this August 15 2014 news release, it has yet to prove prudent as a business development strategy in the absence of sufficient and tangible customer benefit. However, should a carbon tax credit incentive pass into law we believe it may offer significant opportunities for QS Energy's technologies. During my tenure as Chief Executive Officer I have had countless discussions about the role our solutions could play in achieving the twin goals of reducing CO2 output and our customers securing financial advantages through research funding and tax credits.

More often than not the topic of carbon credits has been brought up as an ancillary benefit of AOT or Joule Heat by our prospective customers. Even though such incentives were at the time purely speculative, executives at midstream companies, technologists at engineering firms, and elected officials in regulatory and economic development agencies in Utah and Louisiana made clear their interest in investigating this intently. To fully explore carbon tax credit offset benefits AOT and Joule Heat could potentially offer to producers, transporters, and operators of offloading facilities and refineries, QS Energy commissioned a Carbon Markets research paper by Loyola Marymount University. Completed in December 2014, the study documents the emerging markets for the buying and selling of carbon emission allowances or permits ("carbon trading") and the fiscal benefits that may be gained by our customers through U.S. and international tax credits.

It is also worth noting that we have just wrapped up a reengineering of our patented Joule Heat System. As a result of the testing of a new prototype, we are in the process of further refining the performance of this innovative direct heat technology. While our patents remain in force with our intellectual property attorneys Jones Walker LLP, the Company is amending and resubmitting designs and additional patentable engineering characteristics for this energy-efficient upstream heating product.

Now that the value engineering of AOT and Joule Heat are nearing completion, we are reviewing Company-owned technology, patents, and other assets related to ELEKTRA, a clean tech hardware system designed to increase fuel efficiency and improve performance of diesel engines. According to multiple industry and government studies there is potentially a strong and growing demand for technology able to mitigate CO2 and other pollutants produced by the millions of diesel engines in use today in electric plants, marine vessels, and Class I locomotives in the U.S. We will be developing additional ELEKTRA design drawings and engineering schematics for the second quarter of 2017.

As our extensive protocols of controlled loop and commercial pipeline testing has borne out, AOT can be effectively customized for virtually any crude oil viscosity reduction and flow volume improvement application producers or transporters anywhere in the world can envision. An excellent example of this can be seen in a recent request for a modified system required for a high volume offloading facility. In response to this need we are currently developing the AOT XL, a vertically mounted, multi-vessel, modular unit designed for offshore applications.

We thank our shareholders for their loyalty and support, and our industry partners and supply chain suppliers for their collaboration. As noted throughout the year in our previous Shareholder Updates, news releases and SEC filings, we remain steadfast in our belief that AOT and Joule Heat have the potential to optimize the world's massive pipeline infrastructure at a time when operational efficiency, bottom line performance, and competitive advantages are paramount objectives of the industry.

Best regards,

Greggory M. Bigger
Chief Executive Officer
QS Energy, Inc.
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Released October 17, 2016

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INCORRECT. This is why TRANSCANADA is showing "CONTINUED INTERESTS" in the PROVEN AOT. This is ABSOLUTELY TRUE. From the Business Plan. AOT Case Study. This is clearly in reference to TransCanada & the PROVEN AOT.

http://content.stockpr.com/sec/0001019687-15-004373/0001019687-15-004373.pdf


AOT CASE STUDY

QS Energy / ATS RheoSystems Joint Testing of
Commercial Beta Deployment on Mid-Continent High Volume Pipeline

In September 2014, a four-vessel AOT system was installed on a newly constructed, high-volume North-South, mid-continent pipeline under the terms of an Equipment Lease-Option to Purchase Agreement. Fabricated by QS Energy supply chain partners in 2013, the solid-state, 110-ton AOT system was shipped by freight truck and positioned on a gravel substrate on the equipment’s self-contained steel skid-mount at a pumping station of the customer’s choosing.

This commercial deployment and beta test opportunity was the result of extensive collaboration between QS Energy and executives and engineers from multiple producers, pipeline operators and supply chain partners. Following installation, pressure testing and calibration, the AOT system was interfaced with the extant SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) to provide a detailed overview of the system’s performance, including real time monitoring of flow rates, back flow pressure and other relevant metrics. Preliminary tests were conducted over a period of several weeks, under a variety of operating conditions and multiple grades of crude oil and diluent mixtures.

During the preliminary test cycle, it was determined that the electric field within the AOT pressure vessel was insufficient to fully treat heavy crude oils at flow rates expected under full-scale operating conditions. The power supply provided with the AOT device had been specified and approved by Temple University based on infrastructure and operating parameters, as well as on laboratory tests performed on crude oil samples provided by the pipeline operator. Detailed investigation verified the AOT power supply had been manufactured to, and was operating at, specifications as provided by Temple University, but was generating an electric field approximately 10% of that required to optimize treatment under full-scale operating flow rates 16 . It was further determined that replacing the AOT power supply with a more powerful unit would likely correct the situation. However, due to time constraints, all parties agreed to go forward with the testing using the installed power supply.

In its most extensive testing during this deployment, the AOT was operated under full-scale commercial operating conditions over a two-day period. Operations were overseen by the pipeline operator and QS Energy engineers, while engineers from ATS RheoSystems, a division of the CANNON Instrument Company (“ATS”), were on-site collecting data for subsequent analysis. Oil samples were taken from the pipeline both before and after treatment by the AOT. Viscosity measurements were conducted on three grades of heavy crude oils over the two-day testing period. Data collected and analyzed before and after AOT treatment demonstrated a decrease in viscosity of approximately 23 percent 3 hours after treatment, and a decrease in viscosity of approximately 11 percent 13 hours after treatment; 22 hours after treatment, the crude oil had returned to its original pre-treated viscosity.

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NOT TRUE according to the EVIDENCE from the RECENT shareholders update. The PROVEN AOT will be sold WORLD WIDE as per the FACTS below

https://ir.qsenergy.com/press-releases/detail/2036


QS Energy CEO Jason Lane Issues Shareholder Update

HOUSTON, TX -- (Marketwired) -- 11/02/17 -- QS Energy, Inc. (the "Company" or "QS Energy") (OTCQB: QSEP) is a developer of integrated technology solutions for the energy industry. The following is a shareholder update from Jason Lane, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, QS Energy, Inc.

Dear Shareholders,

I am pleased to share this update with everyone on behalf of QS Energy. As most of you are aware, I have been on the job now for 7 months, having taken the helm at QS Energy in April. This letter underscores my enthusiasm about important progress we've made on multiple fronts over this short period of time, including a revamp of our go-to-market strategy with AOT; added depth of our leadership team and board; growing domestic and international interest in our technology; and the confidence and support of our shareholders in the Company's long-term product and financial strategies as demonstrated in our recent consent vote. Each element in this mix is crucial to QS Energy's future growth and success.

Revised go-to-market strategy: "eDiluent"
Our team continues to see increasing demand in the oil industry for new means of achieving viscosity reduction. Oil companies today often dilute heavy crudes by more than 25%, incurring considerable direct and indirect costs of adding condensate or other diluent, along with pipeline tariffs to transport diluent combined with heavy crude, while potentially degrading the market value of the final diluted product. Our AOT technology addresses this demand, and we've made some important changes in our business model to take advantage of this market opportunity.

In essence, using our AOT solid-state technology to reduce viscosity provides an electronic form of diluent -- a service we call "eDiluent" (trademark pending). Priced at a fraction of the cost of diluent replaced through AOT viscosity reduction, eDiluent can be a true win-win, with midstream operators positioned to upsell eDiluent as a premium service, while upstream producers enjoy reduced reliance on diluents, increased delivery volumes, decreased transport tariffs, and increased market value of their delivered product. This comes with ancillary benefits of AOT operations, such as improved vapor pressure and reduced off-gassing, pipeline pressure-drop reduction, elimination of bottlenecks, increased pipeline capacity, and reduced downtime.

Having received strong initial interest in our eDiluent concept, we are now working with select midstream companies to develop, install, and operate short-term demonstration projects. As currently proposed, equipment for these demonstration projects would be provided at no cost. Once cost savings have been established, we intend to initiate long-term leases with recurring eDiluent service fees at the demonstration site, and look to install additional AOT equipment throughout customer operations.

We are encouraged by both domestic and international opportunities. In October, we completed laboratory testing at Temple University on crude oil samples provided by a prospective customer from the Middle East, and are now preparing to run laboratory tests on a crude oil sample recently provided by a U.S. midstream oil company. Shannon Rasmussen, our VP of Engineering, and I will be traveling in early November to meet with 7-8 prospective customers in three South American countries that transport heavy crudes and are highly reliant on naphtha, a very expensive source of diluent. In Peru and Ecuador, we will be visiting two on-site oilfield operations performing feasibility studies. We are also advancing our discussions with companies in Europe and China.

Value Engineering
Last year, the Company began a value engineering program to develop and implement design improvements based on lessons learned in field tests under commercial operating conditions. As reported in February 2016, our initial value engineering efforts improved measured electrical impedance by a factor of two orders of magnitude. These design changes increased system efficiency while widening the scope of feedstocks we can treat to include certain electronically-conductive crudes. These results were supported by field tests performed on a condensate pipeline in 2016.

Since joining QS Energy in July, Mr. Rasmussen has reinvigorated our value engineering efforts with three goals in mind: to decrease cost-of-goods; decrease supply chain fabrication time; and widen our product line to meet the conditions and constraints specified by prospective customers. As a result, we are anticipating a 30%-40% reduction in cost-of-goods and a 30% decrease in production time. Mr. Rasmussen is in the process of expanding our product line to include Upstream AOT -- designed to operate in the upstream and gathering market, and meet specific requirements of prospective customers in South America; and AOT XL -- a design initiated several months ago with four times the capacity of our standard Midstream AOT, designed to meet demands of very high-volume operations and space-constrained operations such as an off-shore oil platform.

Expanded equity structure to drive growth
I'd like to thank our shareholders for your support and actions on our recent consent vote, approving our plan to authorize an additional 200 million shares of common stock and create a new class of preferred stock of 100 million additional shares. This expanded equity base provides a critical new foundation we plan to leverage in our efforts to accelerate market adoption of our AOT technologies and build upon our revised business.

Key to accelerated market adoption is our planned roll-out of a hybrid lease/eDiluent service model, designed to reduce customer cost-of-deployment, while providing long-term recurring revenues for the Company. We recognize that an equipment lease strategy comes with increased capital requirements. This was one of the primary reasons for asking our shareholders to authorize the issuance of preferred stock. Our goal now is to use this combined preferred/common structure to fund our final push into the commercial markets while minimizing shareholder dilution. In particular, we would like to use preferred shares to provide initiative-based funding, such as building equipment to be leased into the market. We have started conversations with institutional investors and others to fund QS Energy's market strategy moving forward, and to build up inventory to deploy in the field, domestically and internationally.

Closing thoughts
All of us at QS Energy continue to work diligently in our efforts to move our Company forward towards full commercialization, revenues and profitability. I have enjoyed visiting with many shareholders over the last several months. I share your enthusiasm, and assure you my team and I are doing everything in our power to make QS Energy the thriving, successful Company we all believe it can be. We look forward to seeing the AOT operating in the field worldwide, solving many of the problems that oil pipeline operators face today. In closing I would like to thank you all once again for your belief in myself, my team, and the Company and I look forward to bringing you all definitive news in the near future.

For further information about QS Energy, Inc., visit www.QSEnergy.com, read our SEC filings at http://ir.stockpr.com/qsenergy/all-sec-filings and subscribe to Email Alerts at http://ir.stockpr.com/qsenergy/email-alerts to receive Company news and shareholder updates.

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Some of the statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements under federal securities laws. Please visit the following link for our complete cautionary forward-looking statement: http://www.qsenergy.com/site-info/disclaimer

About Applied Oil Technology
Developed in partnership with scientists at Temple University in Philadelphia, Applied Oil Technology (AOT) is the energy industry's first pipeline flow improvement solution for crude oil, using an electrical charge to coalesce microscopic particles native to unrefined oil, thereby reducing viscosity. Over the past four years AOT has been rigorously prepared for commercial use with the collaboration of engineering teams at numerous independent oil production and transportation entities interested in harnessing its demonstrated efficacy to increase pipeline performance and flow, drive up committed and uncommitted toll rates for pipeline operators, and reduce pipeline operating costs. Although AOT originally attracted the attention of pipeline operators motivated to improving their takeaway capacity during an historic surge in upstream output resulting from enhanced oil recovery techniques, the technology now represents what we believe to be a premiere solution for improving the profit margins of producers and transporters during today's economically challenged period of low spot prices and supply surplus.

About QS Energy
QS Energy, Inc. (OTCQB: QSEP), provides the global energy industry with patent-protected industrial equipment designed to deliver measurable performance improvements to crude oil pipelines. Developed in partnership with a leading university along with crude oil production and transportation entities, QS Energy's high-value solutions address the enormous capacity inadequacies of domestic and overseas pipeline infrastructures that were designed and constructed prior to the current worldwide surge in oil production. In support of our clients' commitment to the responsible sourcing of energy and environmental stewardship, QS Energy combines scientific research with inventive problem solving to provide energy efficiency 'clean tech' solutions to bring new efficiencies and lower operational costs to the upstream, midstream and gathering sectors.

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Released November 2, 2017

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COMPLETE NONSENSE according to all the GEMS & FACTS from the latest 10Q filing. The below is more ACCURATE & FACTUAL about the PROVEN AOT & KINDER MORGAN. NEXT

In February 2016, the modified AOT equipment was installed at Kinder Morgan’s facility. Pre-acceptance testing was performed in April 2016, culminating in more than 24 hours of continuous operations. In-field viscosity measurements and pipeline data collected during this test indicated the AOT equipment operated as expected, resulting in viscosity reductions equivalent to those measured under laboratory conditions. Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (“SCADA”) pipeline operating data collected by Kinder Morgan during this test indicated a pipeline pressure drop reduction consistent with expectations. Kinder Morgan provided the Company with a number of additional crude oil samples which were tested in the laboratory for future test correlation and operational planning purposes. Based on final analysis of in-field test results, SCADA operating data and subsequent analysis of crude oil samples at Temple University, Kinder Morgan and QS Energy are considering moving the AOT test facility to a different, higher-volume pipeline location.