Levenberg – Power plants without fuel Levenberg’s book, “Power Plants Without Fuel,” examines environmentally friendly power plants based on turbo-generators, Stirling engines, and thermoelectric and thermionic generators with heat accumulators as thermal energy sources. Data is provided for determining the efficiency and selecting the parameters of power modules. A comparative ...

Varypaev – Chemical Current Sources. Tutorial Varypaev’s textbook, “Chemical Current Sources,” provides the fundamentals of the theory, design, and operation of chemical current sources (CCS). The most common primary cells and batteries, their design, and characteristics are discussed. Lithium cells, backup and fuel batteries, and metal-gas batteries are also presented. ...

The Prime Minister named the amount of energy that Ukraine’s energy sector lacks before winter. The energy sector’s unmet needs ahead of winter amount to approximately 650 million euros (citing Interfax-Ukraine). “The fourth priority is energy sustainability. The Ukrainian Energy Support Fund has already accumulated over €2 billion. However, the ...

Kondrashov – Jet Energy Technologies Kondrashov’s book, “Jet Energy Technologies,” examines methods for converting low-grade environmental energy in gas turbine engines to generate shaft power, high-grade heat, “cold,” and reactive thrust. These engines utilize the sequential addition of additional masses, implemented in the ejector nozzles of the gas turbine engine. ...

Kessler – Nuclear Energy Kessler’s book, “Nuclear Energy,” addresses the fundamental issues of modern nuclear energy: potential applications of nuclear energy sources, fuel supply, types and features of nuclear reactors, technical aspects of the main fuel cycle components, including spent fuel reprocessing, radioactive waste management, nuclear energy safety, and environmental ...

Nikola Tesla – Lectures and articles The purpose of this book, Nikola Tesla – Lectures and Articles, is to introduce the reader to Nikola Tesla’s most important works in the many fields of science to which he devoted himself. Tesla publicized his inventions in lectures given at numerous scientific organizations, ...