Dr. Conca reports that Captain James T. Kirk wants to crowdfund a water pipeline from Seattle down to Lake Mead in Nevada to fix California megadrought. Shatner announced that even if he does not meet his financial goal, the campaign will at least get the word out about the California drought. If he does not make the 30 billion dollars necessary, he said that he would give what money to a politician who says that he or she would it. Obviously, it is to raise awareness that something more than just closing your tap is needed, so why not a pipeline, he asks. But, the Pacific Northwest is not the water trove one might think. Conca says they are having the same drought. Snowpack in the Cascade Mountains is at an all-time low, a fraction of years past. Irrigation districts in eastern Washington have announced water rationing for this summer.
California has been foolish shutting the San Onofre nuclear power plant and even downright stupid in light of the current megadrought (per I2M WP editors). Running at 70 per cent power for the next 20 years, as was recommended to eliminate any issue from those vibrating steam tubes, San Onofre power could have produced 30 trillion gallons of drinking water with almost no carbon emissions. Remember, the China Syndrome projected many falsehoods, aka radiating the entire state, now known to be false ala Fukushima.
That would have supplied San Diego County with 80 per cent of its water needs for 20 years at a cost of less than 6 cents per gallon. Shatner is trying to raise 30 billion dollars for this super aqueduct. But 30 billion dollars would build 30 desalination plants like the one being built in Carlsbad. These, in turn, would produce over a billion gallons of drinking water per day, solving most of the water problems of southern California. The Central Valley would need another 30 plants. A small water tax would more than pay for them.
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