Sunday September 20, 2009, 1:25 pm
"The study, now published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, highlights potential environmental benefits and threats resulting from marine renewable energy, such as off-shore wind farms and wave and tidal energy conversion devices.

The research highlights the capacity for marine renewable energy devices to boost local biodiversity and benefit the wider marine environment. Man-made structures on the sea bed attract many marine organisms and sometimes become 'artifical reefs', for example, supporting a wide variety of fish. The study also points out that such devices could have negative environmental impacts, resulting from habitat loss, collision risks, noise and electromagnetic fields."

Read more at site..

Monday September 21, 2009, 3:23 am
Thannxxx Dee.. Everything needs to be thoroughly researched before implementation.. that is why we have all the problems facing us today..

Monday September 21, 2009, 9:56 am
"The odds are that other sources of energy will emerge to replace much of what we get now from oil.(as long as WE keep pushing). The challenge, however, is that if the new energy sources are used in a younger culture way that merely ALLOWS more humans to prliferate accross our planet, destroying more competing species and resources and engaging in more wars of extermination against each other and the natural world, it may seal OUR doom even more solidly than would the loss of OUR fossil fuel resources.
OUR energy sources are not as important as OUR view of life, which is grounded in our culture(america) That IS WHAT MUST CHANGE, AND THE NEED FOR THAT CHANGE IS URGENT.
The good news is that we don not have to invent a new culture or way of living. WE do mhave much to learn (remember)- the ways of OUR ancient ancestors, who lived sustainably long before we were "born"- there wayof life worked regardless of available energy stores, because its inherent connection to ALL other life built into it an extraordinary flexibility. That flexibility is still available to us, and even adaptable to " OUR modern" world"...... - Thom Hartmann- The last hours of ancient Sunlight

The solution- Change OUR culture , beginning with YOUR self, WE ARE ALL important........

Wednesday September 23, 2009, 12:48 pm
Thanks for the post Dee! Protecting our oceans and the marine life they support is so vital to preserving our planet.