The Shrine

He claims to want to raise thirty billion dollars via Kickstarter to build a pipeline from Seattle to California to end the drought.

Considering that the biggest Kickstarter so far was $81m for Star Citizen, and that's about 1/250th of what he needs, something tells me it won't work; plus Seattle doesn't sound too happy about it.

I think the right play would be to do a fifty MILLION dollar Kickstarter to build two experimental solar desalination plants on the coast, then bring it to Brown's desk; but Kirk will be Kirk, I guess.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-sha ... alifornia/

Hell, I might donate a few bucks.

I would too; I just went on Twitter to ask him to run it as a $50m, native-to-California project.

In the era of social media, I feel like just talking about the project helps it.

For instance - if he raises $50m, he could build:

2x$20m solar desalination plants + lobbying program to allocate state funds for more - http://www.businessinsider.com/mit-inve ... ion-2015-4
$10m for lobbying for a California state program mandating that rice growers switch to a different crop - http://www.alternet.org/cows-rice-field ... nias-water

Speaking of bringing water...this actually brought water to the corners of my eyes.

Damn, this could actually, really happen. That's terrifying.

Trick the Republicans into believing it's for good ol' wholesome American tar sand oil from Alberta.