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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
Solar.
Mother nature has been doing it for billions of years.
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Cover Texas with solar panels? Now that's a novel idea.

As a practical matter, I don't think current solar collection technology can generate the amounts of energy for desalination. Saudi Arabia has been doing this for years but I have not looked further into it. Desalination also creates some nasty brine as byproduct.