Captain Kirk Wants To Beam Down Water For California's MegaDrought

The former Captain James T. Kirk wants to crowdfund a water pipeline from Seattle down to Lake Mead in Nevada to fix California's megadrought. That’s a bad idea. It’s cheaper and better to build desalination plants. They produce drinking water at a cost of less than a tenth of a cent per gallon. The power requirement to desalinate seawater for a family of four is about the same as the total power consumption of their refrigerator. Thirty desalination plants would cost the same as what is being raised for a pipeline and would produce a billion gallons of freshwater a day.