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Care must be taken when applying science to natural systems. For example opponenents of a (wave) tidal project in Fundy Bay threatened to effect the rate of tidal exchange from Fundy Bay to the Outer Banks. Estuaries and fresh /brackish water is the premeir nurseries for fish and Aquatic life. Fundy bay takes about as long to drain as it does to refill thus the sloshing of the worlds highest tides in a sort of bath tub effect. Fathoming the potential effect of altering natural ongoing processes is probably not the side of the wave I want to be on. Avoiding effecting un-natural changes on Natural, processes maintains healthier ecosystems, some of which we depend on in a "Web of Life". Conservation and cogenerative production models on the utilization of resources seems to be a better option in most cases. Like a papermill that uses its "Waste heat" from paper processing, to heat the air of the plant for employees etc... So often Cogeneration is lost under the auspices of Conservation. But by recognizing that there is a need for lets say toilet paper, then I don't see why Great Northern Paper can't heat thier factory with there waste water, causing a conservation of energy greater than the potential energy they could get from Damming the Penobscot river (Maines best Whitewater) for their energy profile. At least thats what I told them 20 years ago and it stopped the BIG A damn from being built. Turns out I was right, they stopped the Damn proposal and saved more energy then they could of produced by combining energy cycles in a "cogeneration" Model.