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Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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Jeffrey Bielicki
Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-2519
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: bielicki@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bielicki/
Experience
Jeff Bielicki researches technological innovation and deployment at the nexus of engineering, environmental, and social systems. He is currently focusing on a number of issues pertaining to the scale and implications of the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) as it couples the organization of CO_2-emitting sources with the organization of amenable CO_2 storage geology. His current/recent work includes the impact of CCS on the location of electric power generation, the viability of permanent CO_2 storage in deep sea sediment, and the returns to scale for CCS.
Before coming to Harvard, Jeff was a mechanical engineer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (outside Chicago, Ill.) and the University of Rochester University for Laser Energetics (Rochester, N.Y.). He has published pieces on solar energy and antiproton production. Through his participation in the Young Scientists Summer Program, Jeff was a member of the Transitions to New Technologies program at the International Institute for Systems Analysis (IIASA). He was also a Santa Fe Institute research scholar at the complex systems summer school, and a Crump Fellow. He holds a BSME (Valparaiso University), an MBA (University of Chicago), and an MPA (Harvard University). He is a member of Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), Sigma Xi (scientific research society), the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, the American Economic Association, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Jeff is an improvisational comedian, a baseball player, and a student of Tae Kwon Do.
May 2008
"Returns to Scale in Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure and Deployment"
Discussion Paper
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
In this Belfer Center discussion paper, Bielicki describes SimCCS, a cost-minimizing geospatial deployment model used to deploy CCS for a variety of combinations of CO2 sources and injection reservoirs. The purpose of SimCCS is to determine the returns to scale for CCS deployment and to unravel the determinants thereof.
October 18, 2007
"Building a World that Buries Climate Change"
Presentation
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
In this presentation on Capture and Storage (CCS), given at Clark University on October 18, 2007, Jeff Bielicki focuses on the interactions between technology, policy, economics, regulation, legal liability, and social acceptance - how each is embedded in the other and how each influences each other. He also summarizes the influence of CCS on power plant locations and on coal-to-liquids facilities.
September 2007
"Getting It Done: The Policy Environment in the US and China"
Book Chapter
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Aleksandra Kalinowski, Former Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2006-2007 and Lifeng Zhao, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2006-2008
The United States and China account for about 43% of global emissions. What are the barriers, incentives and policy solutions to deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies in the world's biggest two CO2-emitting countries?
August 2, 2007
"On the Influence of Carbon Capture and Storage on the Location of Industrial Facilities"
Presentation
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Bielicki's presentation addresses the interacting economies of scale associated with CO2 transportation, electricity transmission, and coal shipping. He provides two cases, one for a coal-fired power plant and one for a coal-to-liquids plant.
Kristian Vinkenes
December 5, 2006
"Industrial Organization and the Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage in Deep Sea Sediment"
Presentation
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
