It should be understood that 1/3 of the cost of desalinized water is the cost of energy so that if you kill the cost of energy you also take some but not all of the cost out of water desalination.
I like the second paragraph.
I had never looked at it that way.
Rush says the soul of wit is brevity. You seem to have met that standard here, well done!
Free market competitive pricing is the only way to ensure that relatively scarcer resources are protected and allocated in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
Since government-imposed "adjudication" of resources operates by definition without critical pricing information, its allocation will necessarily be wasteful and inefficient. Shortages will be the inevitable result.
Desalination causes thick briny slurries which kill ocean seabeds.
Otherwise Saudi Arabia would be the Earth’s biggest greenbelt.
But there are promising solutions; desalination is just not one of them.
But the premise of this writing has merit. Cheap essentials reduce dependency. Anything that reduces dependency is anathema to what drives the socialists in the Democratic party. Anything that frightens these socialists is good for America; a simple refrain yet universally true.
(That has naturally pushed the USA in the direction of unlimited government because of the need for the government to adjudicate over relatively scarcer resources.) WHAT?
Your assumption is FALSE
Where in the US Constitution does it say that it is Governments job to adjudicate resources? They tired that in the OLD USSR, and the result- even though they had vast resources they always had shortages because in is impossible to monitor values of resources by anyone. Capitalism naturally determines the value of resource with each trade.
When everyone owns everything (Socialism) no one owns anything. When individuals own things they are more careful and seek out realistic values. Every notice there is never a shortage of automobiles for sale in America. No lines for meat or bread?
Most of the cost of desalination is for the energy, so if we get cheap energy, we will have cheap desalination.