CORONADO

Yeah... I came across this old book, River Love, by Yuma river guide Bob Knowlton where he describes his family’s 1980s trip down the Colorado, and I wish I’d heard of it before I left Wichita, because then I’d have heard about how it was fades out at the end. Anyway, he tells about its beginning as a small stream in the Rockies, through the Grand Canyon in a torrent that many others besides me love to challenge, to its end at the Gulf of California where, with its waters diverted upstream for agriculture and other manifestations of civilization as we know it, it dwindles to mud, considerably short of its prior oceanic destination.GET BOOK

AURA

Colorado River State Historic Park in Yuma presents visitors with a snapshot of the old days, the present, and mulls what’s next. I went there when I was doing the art for a movie out that way. Sine put in some links I had.

●The big picture, from start to finish

●10 day weather forecast

CORONADO

Yeah. I looked at one of ‘em, the one about putting something like a windmill in a river to get some power out of it without building a dam? I don’t know if Sine could do anything with that, but imagine putting a windmill into a stream or even into the ocean to take advantage of the tides, and Presto! Hydropower without blockades to ships or fish.

AURA

Sine’s a smart cookie. I’ll bet he could do something with that if we got enough people behind the idea.