Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, United States.
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, United States.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Apr 10;712:136424. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136424. Epub 2020 Jan 3.
In recent decades, utilization of renewable energy resources, including ocean waves, has been promoted as part of a global effort to transition away from the use of fossil fuels. This is largely due to the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions and its catastrophic impacts on the environment, which are expected to worsen with the changing climate. Energy from ocean waves can be harnessed and converted into electricity with devices referred to as wave energy converters (WECs). Many researchers have studied the impacts of the WECs on coastal hydrodynamics, however, the impact on morphodynamics is not as well understood. In this paper, we review studies that assess the impacts of wave farms on coastal erosion. The results of a number of studies that focus on various locations around the world show that WECs often generate clean and renewable energy without negatively impacting local coastlines, and in fact often mitigate coastal erosion.
近几十年来，人们一直在推动利用可再生能源资源，包括海浪，以努力实现从化石燃料的使用过渡。这在很大程度上是由于伴随的温室气体排放及其对环境的灾难性影响，预计随着气候变化的加剧，这种影响会恶化。海浪能可以通过被称为海浪能转换器（WECs）的设备来收集和转化为电能。许多研究人员已经研究了 WEC 对海岸水动力学的影响，然而，对地貌形态学的影响还不是很清楚。在本文中，我们回顾了评估波能农场对海岸侵蚀影响的研究。一些关注世界各地不同地点的研究结果表明，WEC 通常可以在不影响当地海岸线的情况下产生清洁和可再生能源，事实上，它们通常还可以减轻海岸侵蚀。
