Talk:Éolienne Bollée

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A fact from Éolienne Bollée appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 26 January 2008.

[edit] Operation section

In the operation section it says

At the lower end this drives a horizontal shaft through a gearbox, which typically drives three throw pump.

The end of this sentence makes no sense. Should it be "free flow pump"? (Not that I'm saying such a thing exists, but the words as they are make no sense at all.)

91.108.13.67 (talk) 12:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Three throw pump is correct - i.e. a pump with three pistons operated by a crankshaft. Mjroots (talk) 12:50, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why the stator?

The article makes a big deal of the fact that it has a stator, but doesn't explain what that is or why the device has one. Can anyone clarify? --P3d0 (talk) 13:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Ehm , all wind turbines have a stator and rotor but the terms are used differently, this is referring to waterpumping turbines which would usually use a shaft and piston type pump, if you click on 'rotor' it shows you more ... Aicchalmers (talk) 13:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The Axial compressor article, which deals mainly with jet engines, shows how the flow of gas goes through a series of rotors and stators. A modern wind turbine has the rotor part, but the wind does not pass through a stator before hitting the rotor (blades) of the wind turbine. On the éolienne, the wind passes through a fixed ring of blades (the stator) before driving the sails (rotor). This is its unique feature.Mjroots (talk) 15:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

New section added explaining the significance of the stator.Mjroots (talk) 15:30, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:FRANCE

Hi, I assessed this article for WP:France and wanted to mention that I think it looks great. Maybe a copy edit here and there, but otherwise very informative and interesting. Lazulilasher (talk) 17:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)