Well, if we want more drinking water we might start boiling salt water with electricity.

99+ missed calls from millimeter wave bored geothermal

Or as Bill Mckibben observed "for 10's of thousands of years, humanity has burned things to produce energy. The period of fire is coming to an end".

That's why I hope Helion Fusion does well. The system they are developing sends power to a device that captures power directly no boiling water.

“How did humanity solve climate change? We taught sand to move electrons with photons.”

Except for solar collection that boils water to generate power.