Shocking news at the lack of consideration being paid to surfers in the face of a new apparently perfect energy generation project off Cornwall England:

The Wave Hub - a seafloor "socket", will connect wave energy machines to the mainland. The proposed power station will involve up to 20 sets of machines, with pumps, pistons and turbines, about 10 miles (16km) out to sea off St Ives Bay, generating electricity for 14,000 homes.

There was some objection to the scheme among surfers who were worried the farm would reduce wave height on the beaches.

Oh. My. God. The inhumanity of it all. Anyway, I wonder how common these sorts of things might become before I kick off. You look at all the efforts to capture energy coming off the air movements above the Great Lakes, for example, but there must be far more that might be done with the power of the water itself. Less surfer backlash as well.