Seems to work just fine for Israeli farming: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/ https://www.scientificameric

Seems to work just fine for Israeli farming: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the... Percentage of household use is a strange measure to use here - Ivanpah plant produces nearly 400 MW and it’s relatively small plant. We have a lot of desert to go around. Producing more solar for the regular grid is not very practical because we can’t use all that up during daylight. If you have dedicated use for desalination that is concurrent with peak production of power, you can bring online a lot more production without risking destabilizing your grid. In effect, desalination can be used to balance the excess supply of solar - the more sunlight we get the more water we can produce. Water is relatively easy to store, modulating the demand to match the available excess supply.