[Tenacious 1]

There is a cost for the energy plant and the energy, but there is an abundance of saltwater. When one drills for oil/natural gas, the oil companies have to deal with saltwater.

Help me out here. Don't we have de-salination plants aboard nuclear vessels that use salt water for cooling?

I don't know what a de-salination plant costs to build, but if they can use salt water for cooling and capture the steam, viola! Fresh water as a by-product of "capturing" nuclear energy.

I'm sure I have over-simplified it.

[topher]

I believe that is true even of the non-nuclear naval vessels.

However, nuclear power plants are very expensive to build.

There is a new method of nuclear technology, but they are much smaller and very inexpensive (the name escapes me).