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Environmental
concerns have prompted costly,
complex technological responses to
current emissions. Fuel cell
technology is one example. The
benefit of running on clean burning
hydrogen is more than offset by the
expense and bulk of the technology
as well as the cost of creating,
storing, and delivering fuel grade
hydrogen. (Air admitted hydrogen has
proven to be a GREEN HOUSE GAS,
forming ice crystals in the upper
atmosphere). Clean running electric
vehicles are limited to very short
ranges, and still must be recharged
by electricity from a coal, diesel
or nuclear-fueled power plant. Gas
turbines are clean, but are constant
speed engines. In small sizes they
are costly to build, run and
overhaul. Diesel and gas internal
combustion engines are efficient,
light, and cheap to manufacture, but
they are dirty and hazardous to
one’s health. Diesel, once thought
to be clean, as been proven to be
one of the most toxic compounds
known (New Science, Oct. 25, 1997).
 “Diesel smoke is around 40 times as
carcinogenic as cigarette smoke” and
“Research has indicated that life
expectancy in large cities is
reduced by around 15% by the
inhalation of particulates...”
Paper by Gong and Waring, SAE
Australia, May/June 1998
These large diesel powered trucks
are still needed for our livelihood.
Gas powered cars have “catalytic
converters that have so far failed
to clean up the air . . .
.converters only work efficiently
when a car’s engine has warmed up... Lots of stopping and starting
– catalysts never get hot enough.”
New Scientist 1995 – September 1996.
1. The Cyclone engine utilizes a
external combustion where the fuel
is burned in a controlled
environment, similar to home heating
furnaces or electric power plants.
As in the Cyclone Engine, the fuel
and preheated air are centrifugally
spun in a circle around the engine.
The heavier, unburned particles are
thrown to the outside, while the
lighter, cleaner gases escape
through a central tube-bundle to the
exhaust.
2. The internal lubricant in the
Cyclone engine is the same as the
working fluid, which is deionized
water. This is accomplished by using
non-corrosive materials and high
temperature composite bearings –
both only recently available. Oil
changes are not necessary. Only
water may be added.
3. The Cyclone Engine using the
innovative external combustion
technology and because it does not
need oil lubrication to operate, is
an overall environmentally cleaner
engine to run.
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