Another factor for not putting them floating on the reservoir is...

Another factor for not putting them floating on the reservoir is that it just adds unnecessary complication to solve a rather trivial problem. They have an existing pipeline to a makeup dam with all approvals in place to draw water from the dam to make up any losses to evaporation.

I would rather do something stock standard, that has been repeated millions of times all over the world, and so would the banks loaning us hundreds of millions of dollars.

This project doesn't work without banks.

Anyways, another update on Facebook, my favorite below: