CAPEX for desal plants is not negligible. The San Diego plant cost $1 BN for a daily output of 50 mil gallons. If you intend to amortize the plant in 20 years,

CAPEX for desal plants is not negligible. The San Diego plant cost $1 BN for a daily output of 50 mil gallons. If you intend to amortize the plant in 20 years, it comes at 0.27 cents/galon. So even if you get free energy, you are far from your target of 0.1 cents per gallon. By the way, thanks for running the numbers. I checked them, amd they are correct, with the small observation that recently the pricd of corn has gone up more than twice.