Direct Energy Conversion

This book is a good book on the subject of Direct energy conversion.The author has given good deal with the various topics of direct energy conversion.Since so many other methods are coming up.The author is requested to update and publish new addition.I thin I have not seen any publication after 1982.So new publication with updating will help for the book to be more papular .

Stanley Angrist does an excellent job of explaining how we convert heat, light and other things into electricity. Although this is an old book, it covers the subject really well. I have used this to teach a course at FIT called "Space Power Systems." He covers batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaic, thermoelectric, thermionic, radioisotope thermoelectric generators, magneto hydrodynamic generators, fission and fusion. It is written for the science literate, and he explains the basics of quantum physics as it applies to power generation very well.