If you read the article, this take actually is not true if you have a grid powered fully by renewables. It only makes sense when you have a hybrid grid where ba

If you read the article, this take actually is not true if you have a grid powered fully by renewables. It only makes sense when you have a hybrid grid where baseload is powered by fossil fuels and the arbitrage difference makes desal attractive. Note that a nuclear grid doesn’t have this problem & it has enough capacity to reliably power everything + continuously run desal. To run desal off of solar requires a much larger capacity installed because you have to make up the lack of 24/7 operation with excess capacity whereas something like nuclear can make up the production gap due to smaller excess capacity by running 24/7.