Augustus Doricko

I don't even know if people really trust scientists anymore though.

So yeah, it's probably something to the effect of a new agency that

You know what you can do?

Copy China's regulation.

Maybe not exactly that, but at least take some inspiration from them, given that they are benefiting the lives of Chinese people through their program.

I think the...

A convenient thing about us, unlike nuclear, where oil and gas advocate against nuclear to some extent, that's a real trade.

Water, very few people have enough of it, so I think most everyone wants more.

It's pretty bipartisan.

It's pretty hard to say, no, we shouldn't have more water.

But I think the bad outcome is

is one where like weather traders that trade on futures that are betting on severe weather or droughts or crop failures don't want to see this through because you can make money off of those trades.

I think there's that situation, but I haven't yet encountered anybody that seems to be like knowingly maliciously trying to prevent like a good technology from coming to market.

Yeah, I think the mud slides.

Yeah, the simple way to get around that is you just don't operate in highly populated areas, right?

So like the Rocky Mountains, relatively unpopulated, but all of the snow and rain that goes there runs off into the cities that, into the reservoirs and rivers that do benefit the cities, but tens or hundreds or thousands of miles away.

So you can mitigate for that risk by operating in more remote areas.

You know, what could go wrong beyond that?

Yeah, I think that you covered most of the bases there.

It is, if someone was totally irresponsible and totally irregulated operating over a highly populated area, that you could run the risk of avalanches.