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Casey is a person that is disconnected from reality. There is a reason that Nevada hasn't been terraformed. It isn't regulations or lack of will. It's physics. He would be better off if he spent more time building things and less time in his spreadsheets. Please read "Cadillac Desert" if you want to have more context.

The article refers to "Cadillac Desert" but seems to miss the part about how it was all a bad idea in the end.

It's always an interesting read, but he should hire someone to fix his website. (For example, when I first looked at it, all the pictures were missing.)

> just incredibly detailed

Other than forgetting that literal drilled wells exist.

Ground water is a very limited commodity, one which we are exploiting beyond sustainability. You are just plain wrong here.