BP Wind & Solar CEO: project money ‘completely dried up’ [National Wind Watch]

Financing for wind farms has disappeared and fewer companies will be able to develop the kind of “mega projects” needed to feed the growing demand for energy, said Reyad Fezzani, CEO of BP’s wind and solar operations, at the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations conference Wednesday.

In just the last month, money that typically would be available for building renewable-energy projects has “completely dried up,” thanks to the financial market crisis, Fezzani said during a keynote and on-stage interview with Yuliya Chernova, editor of Dow Jones’ Clean Technology Insight.

Global Warming in Academia

I hereby condemn false arguments and bias on both sides of the debate. Skepticism is a virtue but it must be evenly dispensed. As a college student at what most of you would consider a liberal northeastern college, most students and professors I am exposed to unequivocally accept AGW, false observations of global warming, and dire predictions of its consequences. I was inspired to write this by a recent example of such unintended bias.

This evening my roommate attended a lecture by one of his professors in which the professor told the audience it has warmed in February, March and April during sugar maple tapping season. He has been a resident at the college for 34 years and taps over 1,000 trees in the spring. I, an amateur meteorologist, doubted this claim. In fact, the last F/M/A period 1992-2007 averaged .5 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than during 1976-1991 (F: +.25; M: -.9; A: -1.1).