Have you ever _been_ to the west coast of Scotland? I can assure you that there'll be _plenty_ of wave energy left even if lots (pick a large number) of these were built....
All it's doing is taking energy that would cause some [erosion, turbulence, noise, whatever] and all end up as heat anyway; and extracting that as electricity.
However, there will be loss of wildlife habitat, pollution from debris and concrete (very nasty stuff in water) during construction... to be taken into consideration to decide if this is worthwhile.
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Have you ever _been_ to the west coast of Scotland? I can assure you that there'll be _plenty_ of wave energy left even if lots (pick a large number) of these were built.... All it's doing is taking energy that would cause some [erosion, turbulence, noise, whatever] and all end up as heat anyway; and extracting that as electricity. However, there will be loss of wildlife habitat, pollution from debris and concrete (very nasty stuff in water) during construction... to be taken into consideration to decide if this is worthwhile.