Transmute wrote:

I would love OTEC to do that instead of fusion power and reverse-osmosis plants.
Think about it:
Salted water comes in
Fresh water comes out +
Electricity comes out.
Totally perfect solution. Of course the usual approach of the world is that nobody wants one.
See more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion

Yep, totally perfect. And about only about 40x as expensive as FF. Hmm…. %-P

Yes but it completely feasible with existing technology.

One way to think of economics is that it is the offering and selecting of options. Given a choice between an inadequate amount of perfect technology, or adequate amount of imperfect technology (like oil, gas, etc.), for the same price, guess which will be chosen?