Arthur H Rosenfeld
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Dr. Arthur H Rosenfeld is a former Commissioner of the California Energy Commission
, serving from 2000 until his retirement in 2010.
Rosenfeld earned a PhD (1954) in Physics from the University of Chicago
where he was the last graduate student of Enrico Fermi
.
1955-1973 He worked in the physics group at University of California, Berkeley
where he did some of the key development of bubble chamber
physics, particularly the hardware and software for photographing, measuring and analyzing data.
In 1975, he founded the group that became the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
. At the center he researched the miniaturisation of electronic ballasts in fluorescent lamps leading to the development of compact fluorescent lamp
s.
The Center developed a broad range of energy efficiency technologies, including electronic ballasts for fluorescent lighting, a key component of compact fluorescent lamps; and low-emissivity windows, a coating for glass that allows light in but blocks heat from either entering (summer) or escaping (winter). Dr. Rosenfeld was personally responsible for developing DOE-2, a computer program for building energy analysis and design that was incorporated in California’s Building Code in 1978. These codes have served as models for the nation, copied by Florida
and Massachusetts
, and other states are beginning to adopt them as well. DOE-2 is used to calculate codes and guidelines for energy efficient new buildings in China and many other countries.
From 1994 to 1999 he was a Senior Advisor at the United States United States Department of Energy.
In 2001, Rosenfeld developed Rosenfeld's Law
, which states that the amount of energy required to produce one dollar of GDP has decreased by about one percent per year since 1845.
A conference in 2006 at University of California, Berkeley was dedicated to the so-called Rosenfeld Effect
, which recognized California's low per-capita growth in electricity since 1973.
In 2008, Rosenfeld announced his desire to see all new California homes be equipped with a radio controlled thermostat that would allow the State to transmit price and reliability signals to the house, allowing customers to change their energy usage with changes in price.
mage:Art-Rosenfeld-Award-Plaque-Energy-Efficiency.jpg|thumb|alt=|300px|left|A large clock tower and other buildings line a great river.|Chris Calwell of Ecos Consulting and Jonathan Koomey, Consulting Professor at Stanford University, announced the Rosenfeld unit at a conference to honor Dr. Rosenfeld at University of California, Davis on March 9, 2010 and presented him with a plaque commemorating the occasion.
On March 9, 2010, the open-access refereed journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL)
published an article in which more than 50 leaders in the field of energy efficiency
proposed a new unit to characterize electricity savings – the Rosenfeld (symbol: Rs). One Rosenfeld is equal to 3 billion kilowatt-hours per year, which represents the electrical output of one 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant under a set of standard assumptions. In reference to such a standard coal plant, one rosenfeld of saved electricity also avoids emissions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. From the abstract:
In the Spring of 2011, Dr. Rosenfeld was awarded the distinguished Global Energy Prize by Russia. This award is in recognition of his forward thinking and innovations in the area of energy efficiency.
Dr. Rosenfeld is semi-retired but still actively promoting energy efficiency. He is currently Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of California, Berkeley. He also serves on the Board of the non-profit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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Category:Sustainability advocates
Category:American physicists
ru:Розенфельд, Артур
California Energy Commission
The California Energy Commission is California’s primary energy policy and planning agency. Created in 1974 and headquartered in Sacramento, the Commission has responsibility for activities that include forecasting future energy needs, promoting energy efficiency through appliance and building...
, serving from 2000 until his retirement in 2010.
Rosenfeld earned a PhD (1954) in Physics from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
where he was the last graduate student of Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
.
1955-1973 He worked in the physics group at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
where he did some of the key development of bubble chamber
Bubble chamber
A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics...
physics, particularly the hardware and software for photographing, measuring and analyzing data.
In 1975, he founded the group that became the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
. At the center he researched the miniaturisation of electronic ballasts in fluorescent lamps leading to the development of compact fluorescent lamp
Compact fluorescent lamp
A compact fluorescent lamp , also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light, and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent lamp; some types fit into light fixtures formerly used for incandescent lamps...
s.
The Center developed a broad range of energy efficiency technologies, including electronic ballasts for fluorescent lighting, a key component of compact fluorescent lamps; and low-emissivity windows, a coating for glass that allows light in but blocks heat from either entering (summer) or escaping (winter). Dr. Rosenfeld was personally responsible for developing DOE-2, a computer program for building energy analysis and design that was incorporated in California’s Building Code in 1978. These codes have served as models for the nation, copied by Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
and Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, and other states are beginning to adopt them as well. DOE-2 is used to calculate codes and guidelines for energy efficient new buildings in China and many other countries.
From 1994 to 1999 he was a Senior Advisor at the United States United States Department of Energy.
In 2001, Rosenfeld developed Rosenfeld's Law
Rosenfeld's Law
Rosenfeld's Law is an axiom relating physics to economics, that states that the amount of energy required to produce one dollar of GDP has decreased by about one percent per year since 1845.The original quote by Arthur H...
, which states that the amount of energy required to produce one dollar of GDP has decreased by about one percent per year since 1845.
A conference in 2006 at University of California, Berkeley was dedicated to the so-called Rosenfeld Effect
Rosenfeld Effect
The Rosenfeld Effect is the empirical fact that electricity use per capita in California has been almost flat from 1973 to 2006, whereas use in the US has gone up 50%. The effect is attributed to energy efficiency, a cause pioneered by Arthur H...
, which recognized California's low per-capita growth in electricity since 1973.
In 2008, Rosenfeld announced his desire to see all new California homes be equipped with a radio controlled thermostat that would allow the State to transmit price and reliability signals to the house, allowing customers to change their energy usage with changes in price.
mage:Art-Rosenfeld-Award-Plaque-Energy-Efficiency.jpg|thumb|alt=|300px|left|A large clock tower and other buildings line a great river.|Chris Calwell of Ecos Consulting and Jonathan Koomey, Consulting Professor at Stanford University, announced the Rosenfeld unit at a conference to honor Dr. Rosenfeld at University of California, Davis on March 9, 2010 and presented him with a plaque commemorating the occasion.
On March 9, 2010, the open-access refereed journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL)
Environmental Research Letters
Environmental Research Letters is an open-access electronic-only peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all aspects of environmental science. Numerical modelling or simulation, as well as theoretical and experimental approaches to environmental science form the core content...
published an article in which more than 50 leaders in the field of energy efficiency
Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal of efforts to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. For example, insulating a home allows a building to use less heating and cooling energy to achieve and maintain a comfortable temperature...
proposed a new unit to characterize electricity savings – the Rosenfeld (symbol: Rs). One Rosenfeld is equal to 3 billion kilowatt-hours per year, which represents the electrical output of one 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant under a set of standard assumptions. In reference to such a standard coal plant, one rosenfeld of saved electricity also avoids emissions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. From the abstract:
- The growing investment by governments and electric utilitiesElectric utilityAn electric utility is a company that engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. The electrical utility industry is a major provider of energy in most countries. It is indispensable to factories, commercial establishments,...
in energy efficiency programs highlights the need for simple tools to help assess and explain the size of the potential resource. One technique that is commonly used in this effort is to characterize electricity savings in terms of avoided power plants, because it is easier for people to visualize a power plant than it is to understand an abstraction such as billions of kilowatt-hours. Unfortunately, there is no standardization around the characteristics of such power plants.
- In this letter we define parameters for a standard avoided power plant that have physical meaning and intuitive plausibility, for use in back-of-the-envelope calculations. For the prototypical plant this article settles on a 500 MW existing coal plant operating at a 70% capacity factorCapacity factorThe net capacity factor or load factor of a power plant is the ratio of the actual output of a power plant over a period of time and its potential output if it had operated at full nameplate capacity the entire time...
with 7% T&D lossesElectric power transmissionElectric-power transmission is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to Electrical substations located near demand centers...
. Displacing such a plant for one year would save 3 billion kWh/year at the meter and reduce emissions by 3 million metric tons of CO2 per year. The proposed name for this metric is the Rosenfeld, in keeping with the tradition among scientists of naming units in honor of the person most responsible for the for the discovery and widespread adoption of the underlying scientific principle in question—Dr Arthur H Rosenfeld.
In the Spring of 2011, Dr. Rosenfeld was awarded the distinguished Global Energy Prize by Russia. This award is in recognition of his forward thinking and innovations in the area of energy efficiency.
Dr. Rosenfeld is semi-retired but still actively promoting energy efficiency. He is currently Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of California, Berkeley. He also serves on the Board of the non-profit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
Awards
- Honorary Degree, University of Durham, 1983
- Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest, 1986
- Carnot Award for Energy Efficiency, U.S. Department of Energy, 1993
- Berkeley Citation, University of California, 2001
- Enrico Fermi Award, 2006
- Economist Innovator of the Year Award, 2008
- National Association of Engineering (NAE) Membership, 2010
- Global Energy Prize (Russia), 2011
External links
- http://www.artrosenfeld.org
- Biography from the California Energy Commission
- EcoGeek article about Rosenfeld.
- Named the 2005 Enrico Fermi Award Winner
- Ode to Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Doctor Efficiency
Category:1927 births
Category:Living people
Category:Sustainability advocates
Category:American physicists
ru:Розенфельд, Артур