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Engines
embodying the Cyclone
technologies will have broad
markets for motive power and
power generation. Early effort
is being given to developing the
U.S. military market, in
parallel with civilian
applications. APS has the
exclusive license for all
military applications in the
U.S. – a very important
long-term market, and for which
development contracts are
pending. It also has a
non-exclusive license in the
U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean
for large generator sets powered
by Cyclone engines using biomass
as a fuel. APS also has the
license for the U.S. Postal
service, which is expected to
replace its fleet of 140,000
small mail trucks starting
within a few years. APS has an
option on a license extension
for generator sets and auxiliary
power units under 20 kilowatts
in the U.S. – a huge and very
near term market. Various
applications can run from as low
as 1 kilowatt, up to 1 megawatt.
The above listed advantages can
have a dramatic beneficial
result in military as well as
civilian applications. At fixed
base applications, garbage or
any locally available biomass
fuel source can be burned
cleanly, drastically reducing
the cost of power generation,
while getting rid of bothersome
waste. Biomass fueled power
generation is expected to be
rapidly growing, and eventually
huge in size, with the Federal
Government pushing hard for
growth in this area. Unlike the
expensive and capital intensive
requirements to produce high
grade liquid fuels that will run
in internal combustion engines
and diesels, the APS power
generators can burn any fuel
that is combustible. That
includes wood, cornstalks,
grass, farm waste, animal waste,
garbage, etc. The cost of these
fuels should be a small fraction
of that necessary for the highly
refined derivatives from them,
or from conventional fuels.
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