Very true. But why not put up a few square miles of solar arrays in the Southern California desert to power it? Desalination is an activity well suited to an i

Very true. But why not put up a few square miles of solar arrays in the Southern California desert to power it? Desalination is an activity well suited to an intermittent power source. Need more water? Just build another plant and a few more square miles of solar cells. It might be expensive, but it would certainly be a lot more useful than Governor Moonbeam's high speed train from nowhere to nowhere.