enron new weather system courtesy research dept v last night tested new system real time surveillance messaging weather delivers data desktops throughout building 6 1 2 minutes national weather service updates webpages current technology web scraping pages via ftp parsing database impact 6 1 2 minutes hourly power traders enormous weather stations upload data around 53 minutes hour receive within 2 minutes later estimate nonlinear stack model top hour hourly power trading begins otherwise would model results around 15 minutes hour notably hourly power trading intents purposes concluded trade 10 15 minutes manage scheduling next 30 miutes effectively may one hour ahead days ago terms information people excited cto thanks letting happen c