Stu Campana, A\J Renewable Energy blogger

Stu Campana

Stu Campana is an international environmental consultant, with expertise in water, energy and waste management. He is the Water Team Leader with Ecology Ottawa, has a master’s in Environment and Resource Management and writes the A\J Renewable Energy blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StuCampana.

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Dunkers Flow Balancing system decentralized water management A\J

YOU JUST TOOK A WATER BALLOON TO THE FACE. The good news is that, as a Canadian, you are rarely so pressed to think about the quality and abundance of...

Authors Blog

Bubbles in ice - Alternatives Journal A\J Renewable Energy
 We complain all the time about the global treatment of renewable energies as we move from fossil fuels to renewables. It’s taking too long. We need a better energy mix....
Wind farm © elxeneize - Fotolia-35673840
A new Australian study presents evidence that wind turbine health effects are actually all in the head of the complainants, a finding with strong repercussions for Canada.Led by Simon Chapman...
Haida Gwaii photo by anne lazarevitch on Flickr
Last July, a rogue businessman dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific with the intention of creating a massive plankton bloom to absorb carbon dioxide and attract salmon...
solar power plant © anyaivanova - Fotolia
In 2008, the esteemed Al Gore told Obama he should demand that the US move to 100 per cent renewables within ten years.We’re five years on now, but let’s pretend that...
greenblts_gorilla
Canada has some very successful greenbelts. They promote urban density, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and offer a host of recreation possibilities, among other benefits. Canada has some very successful greenbelts....
Solar Panels © Sergiogen - Fotolia
As greenhouse gases go, hexafluoroethane (C2F6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) are about as obscure as a high school band at the Rolling Stones concert of atmospheric warming.Nobody’s...
Energygrid © tomas - Fotolia
We laughed when the first survivalists went off the grid in the early 20th century. Paranoid and anti-social, they braced for a doomsday scenario that never quite arrived. We laughed...
A tornado touching down in Kansas. Wind turbines are visible.
Warm air meets cold, spurring a rush of rotating air, which gathers speed, churning and whistling one hundred metres into the air. The vortex becomes self-sustaining, feeding itself energy as...
Laptop © Ulrich Willmünder
Powering the world entirely through renewable energies is going to bring about some logistical challenges, as technological change always does. Powering the world entirely through renewable energies is going to...
Amable du Fond River © Photomac - Fotolia
The Greeks invented the watermill sometime around the 3rd century BC and until very recently the basic design of a wheel and cogs has been used throughout the world to...