And we haven't even touched on fracking.  There haven't been any earthquakes in the DFW area for a few months but they were coming regular there for a while last year.

Emmeran wrote:

This is promising:  http://oscillapower.com/triton-wec/

That is interesting.  I'd like to see how it really handles heavy waves vs. what they have on their marketing slick though.  That has been the primary failure point of all wave action power generation before this.