Wave Energy?

Question

I have a geography question and it is..Is Wave Energy enviromentally impact free and can you explain why or why not?

Answer 1

It is not environmentally impact free even though a lot of Green people want to believe that it is. Ocean wave action is important to beaches and shoreline ecosystems. If most of the wave power was harnessed for energy, it would change the environment. it's not any different from hydroelectric power. If you put a sufficiently large dam across a river, you will change the river environment as well. However, if this is a homework question, you're SUPPOSED to say, "it's environmentally impact free", because that's the same dumbheaded politics preaching "environmentally impact free" qualities of wind power generating stations, when in fact huge windmill farms are an eyesore. Almost any means of power generation involves tradeoffs in terms of environmental impact.