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CW3 Harvey K. - The problem would be local over-salinization not ocean wide and that is pretty easily if somewhat expensively solved.
The amount we spread on roads is trivial in comparison to the amounts we are talking about here

CPT Jack Durish - A touch more that the power you get out, but that energy can be produced very cleanly.

1stSgt Nelson Kerr - I find it difficult to consider 20,000,000 tons of salt a year as “trivial", even if all of it were to be dumped into the Pacific, where it might raise over-all salinity by a negligible factor.
Do you have any number to put on the equivalent amount of salt put into the seas by desalination plants?

Perhaps this is the solution to the real problem in desalination plants, not their number, but how the discharge of super-saline waste water generated by the process can be turned to something useful, rather than disruptive.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desalination-breakthrough-saving-the-sea-from-salt/#:~:text=The%20gulf%2C%20along%20with%20the%20Red%20and%20Mediterranean,making%20up%2045%20percent%20of%20global%20desalination%20capacity.

30 billion tons salt is trivial on the scales of just the Pacific, that is about a ton per 8 cubic miles of water. the article is about the problems of dumping the salt into a confined area