A note of thanks to Francis Menton who allows his entire articles to be posted as long as there is attribution and a link. Much appreciated.
Like ENRON’s Ken Lay discovered, an “energy company” can make billions (for a short time) IF that “energy company” says the right things to politicians and the business-political press corpse about the press corpse’s latest feel-good trends and desires.
It was, after all, ENRON who “invented” the carbon trading schemes for manipulating energy futures markets of over 30 trillion annually. And those carbon trading schemes REQUIRE that carbon futures be threatened/mandated into scarcity to create the market!
I am surprised though that even in the power industry there are few if any (publicly available) spreadsheets or calculator-web-pages with even basic input criteria (latitude, elevation, local climate (daily clouds and rain, dust, pollen, humidity, annual storm and clear day and partially cloudy day frequency) vs daily power requirements.
So, amongst the Free republic regulars, who carries the power-global warming-industrial capacity ping list?