Also you say ‘on the magnitudeof energy that we need ..’ - well what if we also decrease the amount of need by reducing the friction in the devices we use - making everything slicker and more easily moveable, using floating magnets, etc

Think like evergreen trees maybe...pyramid shapes that are mounted on on top of another and using gravity to have the salt water roll down...

Pyramid - make bigger hills....longer drag on surface area...

Maybe the pyramids - it creates a larger surface which causes rain to slide down a longer slanted travel route using gravity..the long narrowing tunnels to the inside ...interesting....I wonder what material was really on the outside and wonder also if salty rain could be produced..

I love leaving my organic Meijer salted butter out. Its soo yum. I keep a glass lid on it on the counter.