Plenty of water in the ocean but that takes POWER to take the salt out. The need for oil is still prevalent to do that job.
I always wondered why they don't pipe that seawater through the Rockies into some Arizona/Utah/New Mexico deserts or into the Cali deserts and into large sealed retention ponds.
Let the sun do the work and ship the salt back to the ocean or sell it.
Salt is way too plentiful and cheap to need to do that, it is very cheaply mined or evaporated near oceans to bother with that.
I was thinking more about capturing the water using the sun as power for the desalination process.
I guess I wasn't to clear.
In large quantities that water could prove valuable and I believe that gravity would take it to the desert with little pumping required.
