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Cycclone Magnet Engine

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U.S. company with R&D lab in Australia claims to have an engine that runs only on permanent magnets, with no other input except a starter aparatus that is powered by a battery and then disconnected. October 2003 TV footage shows demo prototype in action. Company claims to be building a prototype that can be fitted to an automobile.

Skeptics claim the company is a scam. The company has been under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission since April 2006. On March 26, 2007 the ASIC launched an application to have a liquidator appointed.

  • ASIC alleges misleading & deceptive conduct (pdf) - ASIC (Australian regulator) has lodged a statement of claim in the Supreme Court of Queensland alleging, amongst other things, that Cycclone, Nugent, Foster & McClelland have been engaed in misleading & deceptive conduct. The Court has been asked to appoint a liquidator to Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc.

The following page contains comments from both sides of the argument.

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NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH 
Engines > Cyclone Technologies Schoell Cycle Engine - The Cyclone Engine is designed around the principles of an external combustion engine, to efficiently use any liquid or gaseous fuel and create more power and significantly less emissions than current gasoline or diesel powered internal combustion engines.

Contents

Cycclone

Latest Developments

  • Engineer fights charges over invention scam - Sovereign Island-based Micheal Nugent is fighting charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that he engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. (GoldCoast; Sept. 12, 2008)

CYCCLONE PROSECUTION BEGINS IN THE SUPREME COURT

17TH AUGUST 2008


Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc and its directors Michael Peter Nugent, Robert McClelland and Steven Foster face a 10 day trial in the Supreme Court of Queensland which commenced today. The trial is the result of two and a half years of investigations by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission into the alleged criminal conduct perpetrated on the Australian public by Nugent, McClelland and Foster. Numerous witnesses have come forward to provide statements to the ASIC which support the claims made by them in their pursuit of Cycclone and its directors.

Since Nugent and his accomplices were exposed in 2006, the ASIC have confiscated the contraption, which appears in a video on numerous internet sites, which is known as the Cycclone Magnetic Engine and which has been heavily promoted by Nugent on the internet to encourage investors to buy shares in Cycclone.

Since being outed, Nugent has moved on to set up the following companies:

Endeavour Logistics Pty Ltd - A transport logistics company Conman Clothes Pty ltd - A retailer of sports clothing allied to skateboards. Adbax Pty Ltd - A truck advertising company Fire from Ice Films Pty Ltd- A film production company Roadships America Inc - A short sea shipping company.

For someone who claimed to have invented a magnetic engine that could propel a motor vehicle across the USA, it is amazing that he has moved into t-shirts, trucking and films to earn a living.



Official Website

Site was down for several months in late 2005, early 2006. It is back up as of May 2, 2006. Some of the previous links listed on this feature page below no longer work.

Three domain names with mirroring content.

Website Archives

To see snapshots of the Cycclone website over time, see

C3X Engine

According to cycclone.com...page2.php and cycclone.com...page3.php

"Cycclone Magnetic Engines (CME) [...] bases their concept on using permanent magnets in a configuration that supplies mechanical power on demand. To offer a commercially-viable alternative to the ubiquitous internal combustion engine, a magnetic technology must imitate the manner and principles under which the internal combustion engines operate. That is, to accelerate, decelerate, maintain a specific number of revolutions per minute while responding to an increase or decrease in load, and to have the ability to be operated by humans in a foolproof fashion. CME believes that it is able to meet these criteria by concentrating development on the control and configuration of the applied magnets."

Video

Featured on (Gold Coast Australia?) Channel 9 news, October 2003.

http://cycclone.us/see%20eng%20run.wmv

Requires Windows Media Player 7 or greater

Timeline

C3X in new Technical Development Centre opened October 2002
C3X in new Technical Development Centre opened October 2002

Timeline of progress, according to a March 15, 2005 company newsletter (pdf) and company overview page

  • 2005 Cycclone Magnetic Engines increase development work on the engine and aim for the release of the next model, the C3X2, and fitment to a vehicle as soon as possible.
  • September 2004 Cycclone visits magnet manufacturer in the US, and work on the new magnets begins.
  • 29 October 2003 Cycclone Magnetic Engines announced the successful running of the C3X model. A Channel 9 news crew records this achievement.
  • October/November 2002 Technical Development Centre opened, work begins on the C3X engine assembly.


How it Works

C3X Close-up
C3X Close-up

Not a lot of information is given on the Cycclone website as to how the engine functions.

According to the March 2005 newsletter, Nugent says he follows "the concept of using the stored energy in the magnets to produce a mechanical result." An inquiry to Cycclone asking for the data on "energy required to magnetize the magnets versus energy produced by the device" is in process of being answered. The correspondence includes a question about whether or not the engine is an "all magnet" engine, with no electromagnetic components, or if there were an electromagnetic component as well. It is clear that they use some kind of a starting device which has electrical input. It appears that the engine itself is an all-magnet configuration. (Initial email response received July 17, midnight MDT.)

According to http://cycclone.com/welcome/page2.php

"The shape and composition of the magnets is the technical heart of the concept and one of our most guarded secrets."
"Practically all of the research and development work carried out in the race to create a power source utilizing the attraction and repulsion of magnets has been derived from linear motion. Cycclone magnetic engines combine cyclic motion with the use of spinning metals that clone the magnetic pole, hence the name cyc-clone."

More information about magnet types and configuartions is found at cycclone.com...page3.php (broken link)

Engine Features

From March 15, 2005 company newsletter (pdf) (broken link)

"The design of the C3X that you have seen running on the television and internet was specifically built so that it can be extended or shortened and has removable end plates so that we can access the internal workings from both ends. Another unique feature of the C3X is that the magnets are assembled in a cartridge style so that they can be changed similar to the way that you would change a cylinder head or other serviceable component. This will give us the ability to continually up-grade the magnets in service as new processes come on line."

Newsletter aslo tells history of problems with magnets, and how those have been addressed, as well as what additional improvements are envisioned.

Magnet Engine Advantages

"The concept behind CME is to replace the liquid fuel power stroke of two revolutions with a load line (permeance coefficient, Pc) power pulse in four to eight deliveries per revolution depending on the size and power requirement. This will equate to four power strokes per revolution in a four cycle configuration eliminating the wasted energy of one and a half rotations of the four stroke engine. Further, the power consuming components of the reciprocating engine such as the camshaft, valve train, oil pump, water pump, fan, and fuel pump in diesel engines will further advantage the CME as they will not be required." (http://cycclone.com/welcome/page3.php) (broken link)

Dangers and Counter-Measures

"When arrays of magnets are assembled, especially when the magnets must be placed in repelling positions, it is very important to consider safety issues. Modern magnet materials such as the Rare Earth types are extremely powerful, and when in repulsion they can behave as projectiles if adhesives were to break down. CME has identified several potential methods of mechanical retention." (http://cycclone.com/welcome/page3.php) (broken link)

Founder and Inventor: Micheal Nugent

From http://cycclone.com/welcome/page6.php (broken link)

Michael Peter Nugent
Michael Peter Nugent

Micheal Peter Nugent (MAICD) is the Chief Executive Officer of Cycclone Magnetic Engines. Micheal Nugent's career was with Cummins Diesel as an engine builder. He is regarded as one of the top engine builders of our day. Cummins Diesel is a leading engine company. Micheal has worked with some of the most respected engineering firms in the world.

According to Cycclone.com, Micheal "will manage the Technical Development Centre for Cycclone Magnetic Engines and carry out the assembly and further development of the new engines including the fitment of an engine to a vehicle for testing in a long distance drive in the near future."

Email: mnugent@cycclone.us

Phone 617 5580 6000 fax 617 5580 6111 USA cell 310 254 0934
Phone: 61 438158688

Legal Troubles

  • Asic sment of claim 1 Jun 07 (pdf) - ASIC (Australian regulator) has lodged the attached statement of claim in the Supreme Court of Queensland alleging, amongst other things, that Cycclone, Nugent, Foster & McClelland have been engaed in misleading & deceptive conduct. The Court has been asked to appoint a liquidator to Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc.
  • Lismore business directors under scrunity - A COMPANY that raised more than $1.1 million, mainly from Lismore investors, has been accused of misleading and deceptive conduct by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. (Northern Star; May 10, 2007)

Legal Action Against Cycclone Pending

THE DEVELOPING STORY, ONE YEAR LATER - 1st April 2007

My name is Oliver George Douglas and the comments made here about me by Michael Nugent are NOT true. I have no shares in Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc. I have not embarked on any takeover moves against the shareholding in that company and I do not own any web domain known as http://www.cycclone.info

I have a number of business interests and I am a licenced Inquiry Agent and Private Investigator in the State of Western Australia. My licence was issued by the Western Australian Police Force. My licence number is 11098.

I have never been known as Oliver George Jurkovich as inferred by Michael Peter Nugent also known as Peter Michael Nugent who has a partner named Tamara Nugent alias Tamara Neal. I have confirmed that Michael Peter Nugent is a former bankrupt and a former inmate of Yatala Prison in South Australia.

I am able to confirm that following a comprehensive complaint lodged by me in April 2006 with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Michael Nugent and his accomplices have been investigated by Australian Law Enforcement agencies for illegal capital raisings and fraud. The outcome of those investigations have lead to action being commenced against Cycclone Magnetic Engines, Michael Peter Nugent and his two accomplices Robert McClelland and Steve Foster.

On 26th March 2007 the Australian Securities and Investment Commission launched an application to have a liquidator appointed to Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc. This means that they are winding up the company. This action follows a year long investigation into Nugent and his so-called Cycclone Magnetic Engine. His two accomplices, Robert McClelland and Steve Foster have also been named in the writ. It is believed that the ASIC is also taking steps to have the assets of all three men frozen. It is expected that criminal proceedings against these three men will follow in due course.

Numerous allegations have been levelled at Nugent such as :

1. That he designed and built a contraption claiming that it operated using magnets in order to fool, investors, the media, and those decent people who are genuinely supportive of alternative energy innovations.

2. That he issued shares in Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc illegally and sold them to unsuspecting victims of his fraud in Australia. There is ample evidence that Nugent raised over AUD$1.0 million selling shares in Cycclone Magnetic Engines fund his extravagant lifestyle.

3. Nugent never allowed the commissioning of an independent engineers report to support his claims that he indeed had invented a magnetic engine.

It is imperative that bone fide technology supporters and investors seek supporting independent experts opinions about energy saving contraptions before contributing financial and moral support to the inventor and thereby adding unfounded credibility to what could be a scam artist. LET THIS BE A WARNING

I have read the website http://www.cycclone.info and do not have any issue with its content. To my knowledge the statements made by the editor of that website are true.

Nugent's Assertion Ridiculous

Posted 13th May 2007

My Name is Oliver Douglas. Michael Nugent's assertion is preposterous in every respect.

Is it that Mr Nugent is delusional and believes that the Australian Investment and Securities Commission is the Evil Empire and that its investigator, Mr Shaune Williamson is Darth Vader?

Discussion: Charge

REBUTTAL

posted 20th July 2007

THE ABOVE UNTRUE AND DEFAMATORY ATTACK ON MR DOUGLAS AND MR MCARTHUR HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO COULDN'T INVENT A MAGNETIC ENGINE TO SAVE HIMSELF!

Congratulations to the PESWiki website for indexing the Cycclone Magnetic Engine in the "BEWARE" section and marked it as "SCAM"

It is an inescapable fact that after a year of investigations by Australian Law Enforcement officers, Michael Peter Nugent and his accomplices, Robert McClelland and Steven Foster are facing prosecution by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission which includes amongst other claims "deceptive and misleading conduct". The prosecution of these three men is now well advanced in the Supreme Court of Queensland with further hearing dates set down.


Request for Page Removal

According to the history function on the Cycclone feature page at PESWiki, Cycclone founder and inventor, Michael Nugent, contributed content to the feature page under three different log-in profiles:

On May 1, 2007, Nugent submitted a comment to PES Network through the online form saying:

Recently we have been advised that you [PES Network] are using the name "Cycclone" in connection with your web site. This notice is being sent to protest your continued, unauthorized use of of a mark confusinegingly simular to Cycclone Magnetic Engines in connection with your web site. Your use of "Cycclone" unfairly capitalizes on the goodwill and reputation embodied in Cycclone Magneitic Engines service mark. The public has already mistakenly believed that your use of "Cycclone" is somehow authorized or sposored by or is somehow affiliated with Cycclone Magnetic Engines service mark.

"You hold yourself out as qualified. You are not certified editorial. Please remove all of our content from your pages. First Notice."

This is likely due to a critical comment posted on Mar. 31, 2007 by User:Dogcatcher titled "THE DEVELOPING STORY, ONE YEAR LATER - 1st April 2007"

PES Network Response

It is not even remotely feasible to suggest that our coverage of Cycclone Magnetic Engines on this page of our vast website covering a wide range of energy subjects as an independent news and directory service can be construed as being an official Cycclone site or page. Our third-person view -- including skeptical input, a link to the "official website" designated as such, journalistic prose, and publicly editable/commentable content -- has been apparent from the beginning, and can in no wise be misinterpreted as being an official representation of the company. Such a charge is groundless, and a request for removal of this independent coverage for that reason will not be heeded.

-- Sterling D. Allan, CEO of PES Network, Inc (May 3, 2007)


ASIC Prosecutes Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc, Michael Nugent and Others

Posted 13th May 2007

My name is Oliver George Douglas. I am a licenced Inquiry Agent and Private Investigator in the State of Western Australia. My licence was issued by the Western Australian Police Force. My licence number is 11098. I have never been known as Oliver George Jurkovich as inferred by Michael Peter Nugent also known as Peter Michael Nugent who has a partner named Tamara Nugent alias Tamara Neal. I have confirmed that Michael Peter Nugent is a former bankrupt and a former inmate of Yatala Prison in South Australia.

I and Johnathon Peter McArthur, a Cycclone Magnetic Engine Inc investor, lodged a complaint with the Australian Investment and Securities Commission against Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc, Michael Peter Nugent and his accomplices Robert McClelland and Steven Foster in March 2006.

Since then Mr McArthur and I have received threats from Michael Nugent which were identical to the threats received by PES Network. These were delivered to us in an attempt to silence us. Threats of defamation action have long been used as a means of censorship and it appears Michael Nugent is attempting to censor PES Network.

It is to be noted that Michael Nugent used this website for a number of years to promote the contraption he calls the Cycclone Magnetic Engine to further his alleged illegal share selling activities in Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc. Now that the truth is slowly being revealed Mr Nugent does not like the adverse exposure he is receiving on this website, hence the threat of defamation action.

The Australian Investment and Securities Commission has its own website and Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc, Michael Nugent,Robert McClelland and Stephen Foster feature on that website:

More Skeptics

Cycclone.info

http://www.cycclone.info/ - "This webpage has been established by a very upset shareholder of Cycclone Magnetic Engines Inc to inform investors that Michael Nugent is a fake and a conman who has confessed that he defrauded Australian investors of more than $700,000 with his cunning ruse known as the infamous Cycclone Magnetic Engine Scam. The so called magnetic engine that needs two car batteries to run!"

Contact: editor@cycclone.info

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Proof of claims made by cycclone.info

If you look at the 23rd second of video footage at http://www.cycclonemagneticengines.com/videos/cycc_20031125-215Kbps.wmv you can see the two car batteries in plain sight giving support to claims made by the cycclone.info website.

Rebuttal

  • Carter's Comments - Three witnesses to first motor operation, describe motor running after starter motor got it going and was then disconnected. However, such a statement has not been issued by a qualified, independent professional.

The Carter Family Posted 13th May 2007

My name is Oliver Douglas. I have met the Carter family on two occasions. Mr David Carter Senior advised me that he was a self employed carpenter/joiner. Mrs Carter attends to home duties and Mr Carter Junior works as a sales assistant for a chain of computer games retailers. To my knowledge they and the camera crew from Channel 9 on the Gold Coast Queensland are the only ones to have, as Mrs. Carter so eloquently put it, "been privileged" to see the contraption known as the Cycclone Magnetic Engine in operation. I am also aware that the Carters have been acquaintances of Michael Nugent for some 10 years and were no doubt happy to help him out. I gained the impression that they are such nice, accommodating people.

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