Research how? It's not like they can go from 0% to exhausting wave energy immediately. You'd think people will look into this as the technology grows, but you need the tech to actually be there to research it.

I would also say I'm not a big fan of the activists' line of thinking that artificial changes in the ecosystem being bad (but man-made "conservative" actions are good). I mean you can't possibly prove that and we're way pass "should we alter our environment?"