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.
He's talking about evaporating out the water in a sealed system to collect it for freshwater use and selling the salt as a byproduct.
You do understand that if you dig a depression for a pond in the desert, and fill it with salt water from the ocean, that the water will evaporate from the heat and dry air, and you will be left with a depression that used to be a pond that will be full of salt with little or no water, right?
The concept of removing the salt from ocean water is to provide fresh water for the cities along the ocean. If they did just that, and capped off the locations where they are currently pulling the water from the Colorado river basin to supply fresh water to those cities, it would probably solve both problems in a few of years.
Not building cities in the desert in the first place would have been the best correct response, but we are way past that point now.
