Talk:Essay: BattleMech Technology

First time messing with a wiki. Created the page from a writeup I did for mektek and mwll: http://www.mektek.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=147860&view=findpost&p=1187517— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by 75.89.26.166 (talk • contribs) .

Very good article; I'm gonna categorize it under essays. It needs wikilinks, to help cross-reference it. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 12:04, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I figured It needs links and all that jazz, just didn't have the time to go through the whole gaggle of info and figure what to link out and all... yet... :)— The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Pht (talk • contribs) .

Thanks.

This is a great read, thank you to who ever wrote and submitted this.

Something about fusion... Is this a tokamak (doughnut) reactor, or is it one as seen here? Don't know why, but I personally don't really like the tokamak as much.
-dddddddd207

Since BattleTech was published in the 80's I personally would presume that the reactor type being alluded to is a Tokamak, but I do not know of a canon citation that mentions the type specifically. -- LRichardson 00:02, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Iron and Carbon

Absolutely brilliant article! Very informative and well-written from a canonical, scientific and entertaining point of view. Thankyou very much.

I would like to pull you up on one thing though - under Ferro-Fibrous Armor you state that iron reacts with carbon. This couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, iron and carbon are the primary elements which are combined to make steel. They couldn't possibly react with each other or every construction built of something more complex than pig iron would spontaneously collapse over time. This can happen with corrosion but that is normally oxidation from outside forces (eg: oxygen leading to rust) than the components of the material itself working against each other.

I do realise that the BattleTech universe is fictional and obviously some license can be taken in respect to physics (see also: fusion reactors powering 100-ton mechanical weapons platforms) but steel composition is an aspect quite fundamental to 'Mech production and indeed to human civilisation since about 1300 A.D. so I feel it could do with some revising.

--Amitonia 04:43, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Pht - changed the confusing section to "This is quite the trick because steel is a combination of iron and carbon, would normally mean the diamonds, which are pure carbon, would dissolve into the steel. The techniques used to keep the diamond from melting into the iron component of the steel results in bulkier but lighter armor."

In using "reacts with" I was following the source language. Nice find!

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Starting a long series of wikilinking, references, style, voice, length, and other editing that should last a long while. Expect to see lots of small changes --Pht 00:04, 12 July 2011 (UTC)