Reply #4: Less obtrusive? [View All]

Because it's under water? No life under water?

I have no doubt we will try anything and everything. You just have to remember that we will still exist within physical reality, and anything that we do which increases our energy use will increase our impact on the planet/environment/habitat/ecosystem/etc. We can't escape that.

Once we go down this road, we won't be able to stop. We'll use a little power from the waves, then we'll make more efficient technology to harness more tidal energy for less so that more people can afford it, and then we'll use more, and increase our impact, and it will keep going in that direction. The only way it could be less obtrusive is if we act as corporations do, and privitize the profit, and externalize the cost. Less obtrusive to human beings, more and more obtrusive to non-human life.

More energy use, more impact. Period. End of story.