Controlling coastlines while generating power

该项目旨在制定战略，利用波浪能机器农场保护海岸免受风暴的影响，这些机器也能发电。随着气候变化，越来越长的海岸需要保护，但传统的壁垒会造成永久性的环境影响，通常是由纳税人承担的沉没成本。该项目希望为农场中每台机器的设置制定一项战略，以便它们在恶劣条件下共同吸收或反射破坏性的波浪。在正常情况下，足以维持环境过程的波能会通过。出售电力将有助于偿还资本成本。结果将包括降低海岸侵蚀成本和低间歇性能源供应。

The Project aims to produce strategies for protecting coasts from storms using farms of wave-energy machines, which also generate electricity. Increasing lengths of coast need protection as the climate changes, but conventional barriers create permanent environmental impacts and are a sunk cost usually borne by the taxpayer. The Project expects to derive a strategy for the setting of each machine in the farm, so that they collectively absorb or reflect damaging waves under severe conditions. Under normal conditions, enough wave energy to sustain environmental processes would pass through. Sales of electricity would help to pay back the capital cost. Outcomes would include reduced coastal-erosion costs and a low-intermittency energy supply.