(Part 2) Best technology books according to redditors
We found 57 Reddit comments discussing the best technology books. We ranked the 41 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting
Modern Advancements in Long Range Shooting
And Vol. 2
These are college level textbooks for external ballistics.
I have APLRS Ed. 2, and like you, am an engineer and like figuring out how things work.
You'd need to scrub the gas. When it first comes out of the generator, it will likely be full of extra CO2, a lot of water vapor, some H2S, and a few other minor byproducts that the bacterial colony makes. These gases make up about 50% of the raw biogas. While you can use raw biogas for cooking (might be sooty, smelly, and not as hot of a flame), running an engine off raw biogas will likely not work for very long. H2S alongside water vapor and metal will condense sulfur all over the inside of your engine. Luckily, scrubbing gas isn't too hard.
There are many biogas scrubbing options out there, but the one I liked the best was using a packed water column. Essentially, you feed the raw biogas through a fitting into the bottom of a tall pipe (6" pvc or something similar) several feet long, before it exits through another fitting at the top of the pipe. The inside of that pipe is packed with irregularly shaped objects with a lot of surface area, preferably made of plastic or some other non metal. Water is constantly flowing from another fitting at the top of the pipe. It covers the irregularly shaped objects as it travels to the bottom, where it flows through another fitting and into a garden bed for irrigation.
The reason this works is that CO2 and H2S (Hydrogen Sulfide gas will kill you, so it's a good idea to scrub it out) dissolve into water WAY more easily than methane...Like orders of magnitude easier. So, when your raw biogas has a huge surface area of water all around it, those two unwanted gasses are selectively dissolved into that water, leaving you with a much higher proportion of methane. I have read that a packed water column can increase methane percent to nearly 95%.
Doing a biogas setup sounds like a lot of fun, but it really is a bit larger of an undertaking if you intend on using the gas for anything except occasional cooking. I have done a lot of studying on the topic. The single most helpful resource was a book called "The Biogas Handbook" by David House. It can be found fairly cheap, or do as I did and check it out from a nearby library (Had to do interlibrary loan to find a copy, but it was still free).
I'll have to pick two for this one as well, though this pair might as well be one volume: Michael Barthorp's British Infantry Uniforms since 1660 and its companion British Cavalry Uniforms- Combined, they are an incredibly comprehensive study of the development of British army uniforms. Barthorp gives an outline of historical events effecting the army in each chapter, and how those events in turn shaped the army's appearance. Both volumes are also lavishly illustrated with plates by the great Pierre Turner, examples of whose work can be seen here.
Exactly. There is a reason, a sound and valid and logical reason, (or reasons) for the right to bear arms. I'm not sure why a lot of people don't seem to understand this. Police are a reactive force, and are increasingly diminished in the capability to be proactive in countless ways. There are crazy ass people out there, and I have the right to protect myself or my family if I feel my or their life is in imminent danger that cannot be avoided. The sad thing about it is that if we just spent more money in productive things instead of privatizing the prison system and throwing more gas on the never-ending drug war as a means of profit boosting (always gotta have a better next quarter!) It's no coincidence that the kind of people that Americans need to defend themselves from are the kind of people who were forced through necessity of survival to protect themselves in prison, against both other prisoners and the establishment itself.
I'm not saying it's the only cause, but it makes a big fucking difference... just because most crazy ass mofo's are (naturally) pro-arms != all people who are pro-arms are crazy.
And on top of that, I actually just got done reading some very interesting, if debatable, theories about the effects of weapons systems development and availability to the public (vs major evolutions of weapons systems being in the hands of a select few) as having a historically very demonstrable effect on global political and socioeconomic power. So there the issue is not just about our nation, it's a subject that needs to be discussed publicly at a larger scale as well. link
> Going into it, I doubted anyone could write a full book on shipping containers that would be interesting.
I have a family member in the hazardous materials shipping business. He has this book called 55 Gallons, the History of Steel Drum Reconditioning. At 448 pages, he swears it is one of the most interesting history reads ever. I have decided to pass on reading it.
Ross, Sail Power
Marchaj, several books, and another
Coffee floats, tea sinks - a book on the history of the world’s two favorite hot beverages https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Floats-Tea-Sinks-Understanding/dp/0646091808
This isn't really in any particular order, but here you go:
The Navy, ed. Rear-Admiral W.J. Holland
Battleships, by Paul Stillwell
US Navy in World War II, by Ronald Heiferman
History of the US Navy, by James Morris
The World's Great Battleships, by Robert Jackson
World War II US Naval Air Combat, by Robert Lawson & Barrett Tillman
US Battleships in Action: Part 1, by Robert Stern
US Battleships in Action: Part 2, by Robert Stern
US Aircraft Carriers in Action: Part 1, by Robert Stern
US Heavy Cruisers in Action: Part 1, by Al Adcock
US Heavy Cruisers in Action: Part 2, by Al Adcock
US Light Cruisers in Action, by Al Adcock
US Destroyers in Action: Part 3, by Al Adcock
US Destroyer Escorts in Action, by Al Adcock
U-Boats in Action, by Robert Stern
Ship's Data: USS Massachusetts (BB 59), by Norman Friedman
Regia Marina: Italian Battleships of World War Two, by Erminio Bagnasco
Italian Battleships of World War, by Mark Stille
Jutland 1916: Clash of the Dreadnoughts, by Charles London
Coronel and Falklands 1914: Duel in the South Atlantic, by Michael McNally
The Naval Battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for Supremacy in the Pacific, by Mark Stille
British Battlecruisers: 1939-1945, by Angus Konstam
German Battleships:1939-1945, by Gordon Williamson
German Pocket Battleships: 1939-1945, by Gordon Williamson
German Heavy Cruisers: 1939-1945, by Gordon Williamson
German E-Boats: 1939-1945
Coronel and the Falklands, by Geoffrey Bennett
Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval Campaigns that shaped the Modern World, by Peter Padfield
These are some other books I have but my brother is borrowing them lol:
Fletcher DD's in Action, by Jerry Scutts
US Destroyers in Action: Part 4, by Al Adcock
I think that's all the ones I showed. Enjoy!
https://www.amazon.com/Masquerade-amazing-camouflage-deceptions-World/dp/0801549310 It talks about the magic gang and a lot of other stuff.
There's an out-of-print book simply called "Passive Solar Energy." It's got lots of great information; I bet it will be just what you are looking for as far as the physics of solar energy and thermosiphoning (which is essentially "heated fluid rises because it's less dense than cooler fluid"). I'm an engineer and I really think that book gives you all you need to know to have a basic working knowledge of solar heat gain and how various systems of solar energy capture operate. Here's a list of books I have found helpful and/or interesting in regards to solar energy:
For earthships/earth-sheltered homes, I recommend these books:
From my experience in university studying fluid dynamics, I recommend not going any deeper into the subject than what you would find in the solar energy books I listed above. The subject is math-heavy, and the academic study of the topic is not going to help you with what you are interested in with permaculture. It's kind of like studying the abstract physics/math of electromagnetism when all you want to do is wire a house.
Hope this helps!
I love this kind of thing. There's a book of similar pics that I got a long time ago :
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Tech-Guide-Archaeology-Tomorrow/dp/094051222X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=dead+tech&qid=1557594982&s=gateway&sr=8-1
> Bill Gates isn't recognized for being a genius on similar scale to Jobs
As just one example, there's a biography titled Bill Gates: Billionaire Computer Genius. Gates demonstrably has a popular reputation for "genius".
I know most of those images from a book called Mechanismo that my father had when I was a kid. I spent hours watching those amazing images.
Edit: here are some more pages from the book
I see this as being two potentially quite separate issues. The first is simple exposure - please be acquainted some very important contemporary philosophical thinkers:
Slavoj Zizek:
Richard Rorty:
Bernard Stiegler:
The other issue you raise with your definition of the word "decent" is that most philosophers have relied on the trickle down effect in order to impact on societal thinking, and the trickle down effect takes time. A lot of philosophers were influential on "tomorrow's" thinking, ie. people didn't realise how important their work was during their lifetime.
What I can tell you is that the works of the three thinkers above are very robust and very relevant to today's thinking.
Are you in the Toronto area?
I didn't count how many books there are... 2 or 3 dozen maybe? If you want them, it's kind of an all or nothing deal. Most of them are bundled together with twine in small stacks. I'm not going to undo them.
Here are a few examples based on whatever book was on the top of some of the stacks. You'll notice none of these are particularly recent.
there is a 2012 version on Amazon. Not sure if you want it though.
http://www.amazon.com/Technology-Society-Connections-Interpersonal-Relationships/dp/0697810046
Carpentry and Construction, 3rd edition by John L. Feirer and Gilbert R. Hutchings - Amazon link
Cabinetmaking and Millwork also by John L. Fairer Amazon link
Pocket Reference, 4rth edition by Thomas Glover - Amazon link, Reddit thread
All books will be instantly obvious as to why they are valuable when you first open them up and look inside. Do you want to know the books your favorite YouTuber/teacher would likely have had to learn to start their woodworking paths? These were them.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Rockets-Venture-Book/dp/0531114309
I don't know how I would prove to you that I read. I'm about 30 pages from the end of the fourth book in Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile series -- the third time through. I could be lying, I suppose.