Talk:Hydristor

message: This article about the Hydristor is apparently written by its inventor. Although this is a fascinating article in its current form, it needs to be edited into the standard Wikipedia article style. -- The Anome 08:30, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Starting the cleanup. Will cite as needed. jmswtlk 19:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Added in image (more coming), tied in with Categories, and will now link other pages to this, such as Continuously variable transmission. jmswtlk 19:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Written by inventor

message: Further from Tom, "I am establishing a new category of IVT; I am calling this category the 'MIVT' meaning 'Multiple Infinitely Variable Transmission'. The reason is that the Hydristor can do multiple, hydraulically separate but fluidically common variablly controlled jobs. As a Differential drive, the Hydristor can do additional jobs such as operating lift cylinders AND providing power steering on an industrial tractor (see the IFPE video on my website, [www.hydristor.com Hydristor.com]. A 4 chamber Hydristor can theoretically do up to 10 different functions. 
In any situation where energy is processed, the Hydristor can have a significant impact. Cars, trucks, boats, off-road, elevators, forklifts, air conditioners and heat pumps, electrical generation by environmental heat capture, and even propellor powered flight with no fuel. I believe the car of the future will harvest the natural heat from the air and drive the cars for free with no emissions or fuel, and, go like blazes in the bargain."  jmswtlk 12:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Continuously Variable Transmission

message: Although the Hydristor certainly is a great mechanical transmission concept, what is this crap about running it without needing any energy input, OR being able to extract the heat that is in the air to drive it.
Jeesh, at first I thought the poster here was talking about some kind of temperature differential in the atmosphere to extract Gibbs free energy, but no, the guy is actually talking about a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. That kind of ignorant magical science shows where an uneducated purview will take you. (And when I say educated, I don't mean it having to come from a four year college. Any education will do, like simply reading Wikipedia and articles about conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, and perpetual motion machines.)
Just to let you know in street English, you CANNOT extract heat energy from a substance, like air, unless there is a temperature difference existing in it. A uniformly temperatured substance will not yield up energy unless you have another substance with a different temperature in which to let the heat flow into or out of it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garyonthenet (talk • contribs) 12:54, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Reminder, Tom is a college-degreed physicist and noted tinkerer. jmswtlk (talk) 14:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hydristor Enthusiasm no Excuse for Psuedo Science 

message: I removed reference to the Automotive X Prize because I could find no reference by any of the registered teams that they are using the Hydristor.  If someone can find an entrant that is using the technology, we can add the reference back with a link to that particular user.--Stephreg (talk) 18:10, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Automotive X Prize

message: Article should not link to talk page! Rich Farmbrough, 21:49, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-ref

message: There are several that need to be updated. This is in the works. jmswtlk (talk) 03:00, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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