User talk:79.78.12.95

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[edit] Stirling engine

Why did you revert this? --Mikiemike (talk) 03:43, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Apologies if reversion seemed a little curt, but I felt your attempt to clarify had rather the opposite effect and at that time I had neither the time nor the inclination to rework it. It also re-introduced the incorrect catagorisation of the stirling engine as an external combustion engine (it can be but is certainly not neccesarily so, eg Harwell TMD which was powered by embedded radio isotopes (also proposed for Martini artificial heart) and Finkelstein's solar engine which focussed sunlight through a transparent window on to an internal absorber). Of course no wiki effort is ever totally wasted and partly as a result of your attempt, a new and vastly improved intro/summery has emerged!

Unfortunately, the whole article has rather grown like Topsy and the various sections do not hang together well. Plenty of useful work to be done - go to it Mikie but do your research first!


BTW. Don't have a downer on those of us who choose not to register.

79.78.12.95 (talk) 20:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Thanks for your explanations of the Stirling engine regenerator. It seems you havent been given a formal welcome so here it is. Lumos3 (talk) 22:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

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Lumos3 (talk) 22:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the welcome Lumos.
You will note that I have decided to register as it seemed edits from unregistered users are treated with suspicion in some quarters. Unfortunately, even after rather reluctantly taking that step and posting what I imagined to be a constructive and even conciliatory (indicating that I might be prepared to recant on the 'hot air engine' question) piece on the Strling engine discussion page, I was treated to another agressive, bullying response to which I'm afraid I responded in kind. So, I have not found wikipedia the friendy community of people simply wishing to share their knowledge with others it is apparently supposed to be and feel shut out of the article I am probably most able to contribute productively to.
Yours dissapointed Pv=mrt (talk) 08:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)