Areas of Expertise:
Biofuels, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Electric Vehicles, Energy Economics, Energy Security, Energy Storage, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fuel Cells, GHGs, Hydrogen, Hydropower, Liquid Fuels, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil, Regulation, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, Tax Policy, Transmission, Water, WindAdditional Areas of Expertise:
National security, energy security, energy strategy, GHGs, climate, military, EROI, physics, photosynthesis, biodynamics, desalination, demographics, history
25-year military officer, Naval aviator, EA-6B Prowler pilot. 7 times deployed to Middle East and Southwest Asia. 22 months on the ground in Iraq. 3 years as pentagon strategic planner on Joint Staff. 3 years as faculty instructor of warfighting and strategy at the Air War College. Degrees in physics, strategy, and history. Published papers on energy security and biofuels (http://www.au.af.mil/au/ssq/digital/pdf/spring_13/kiefer.pdf ).
Recent Comments by Ike Kiefer
- "America's O&G industries need nothing but state and local governments to stop actively trying to outlaw them. Crude oil, coal, natural gas, and p"
A Pandemic, a Price War, and the Future of America’s Oil Industry - "Isn't it interesting that the same people who claim that distributed generation will free people from the grid then turn around and theorize a super-g"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Gail,
Your points about the seasonal demands for increased storage and the economic difficulties of seasonal plant operation are valid. However, bot"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Lifecycle cost of storing electricity before combustion as hydrocarbon fuel (diesel, natural gas, coal) is pennies per/kWh. Storing electricity after"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Dan, thank you for continuing to hold up Denmark as an example. It is useful to consider what is really happening there, as there is something rotten"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Dr. Dale hits two nails squarely on the head in his comment above.
First, he makes the point that accommodating intermittent RE on the grid is more"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - ""renewables are providing very large proportions of total electricity in a number of locations."
Please name any nations that satisfy your claim.
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Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "The fundamental requirement for an AC power grid is instantaneous balance between generation and load across many dimensions including power, frequenc"
Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity - "Steel is one of many essential ingredients for "renewables," but so are concrete, glass, aluminum, rare earths, lithium, ammonia, phosphate, potash, w"
Do We Have The Raw Materials For The World To Become 80% Renewable By 2050? - ""losing the southern third of Florida and many coastal cities"
"the majority of new energy generation is coming from renewables."
"coal power has nega"
If Cities and States Can Cut CO2 Without Raising Energy Bills, Shouldn’t They?