Todd “Ike” Kiefer
Captain Todd “Ike” Kiefer, USN (ret.) is president of North Lauderdale Water Association in Bailey MS, where he is spearheading deployment of cutting-edge technology in rural utilities. His 14-year career in civilian service includes the management team of East Mississippi Electric Power Association, economic development and utility development consultant to county government, and co-author of multiple utility-related bills passed into law by the Mississippi legislature. His preceding 25 years of military service and 7 combat deployments include 2 years on the ground in Iraq where he command the sprawling Al Asad Air Base. He flew the carrier-based EA-6B Prowler as a Naval aviator; was an operational test pilot; earned degrees in physics, strategy, and military history; served on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, and capped his career as the CJCS Chair for Joint Warfighting at the Air Force Air War College, where he researched and published on primary and alternative energy. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the Joint Forces Staff College.
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Years in Energy
Captain Todd “Ike” Kiefer, USN (ret.) is president of North Lauderdale Water Association in Bailey MS, where he is spearheading deployment of cutting-edge technology in rural utilities. His 14-year career in civilian service includes the management team of East Mississippi Electric Power Association, economic development and utility development consultant to county government, and co-author of multiple utility-related bills passed into law by the Mississippi legislature. His preceding 25 years of military service and 7 combat deployments include 2 years on the ground in Iraq where he command the sprawling Al Asad Air Base. He flew the carrier-based EA-6B Prowler as a Naval aviator; was an operational test pilot; earned degrees in physics, strategy, and military history; served on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, and capped his career as the CJCS Chair for Joint Warfighting at the Air Force Air War College, where he researched and published on primary and alternative energy. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the Joint Forces Staff College.
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- Biofuels
- Military use of Energy
- EROI
- Energy History
- Grid DER & Stability
- Ethanol Mandates
"The assumptions that somehow biofuels can remove dependence on foreign resources turns out not only to be false but inverted....It actually makes you more dependent and more vulnerable."
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