About alternative energy generated from falling water, wave motion, tides, and geothermal. Numerous studies have established our reliance of fossil fuels ( oil, natural gas, coal, gasoline) is polluting and non sustainable practice with serious long term repercussions (acidification of the oceans, rising sea levels, more powerful and frequent storms) of the planet earth ( Surfrider Foundation’s article on Global Warming for more details). These are changes will be felt most likely and stronger along our coasts. Breaking our fossil fuels reliance and requiring more development from a number of alternative energy sources that are renewable and non polluting.

The action title permit by rule for small renewable energy projects like from falling water, wave motion, tides, and geothermical and the regulatory actions for development of the Permits by Rule, the PBRs, and so that the water related or combustion is based renewabless in which that is a must to have and the right thing to do, beneficial in so many ways and expecially for the future of energy as we know it.

Alternative energy is typically used as a description of the sustainable means for generating electrical power without involving the burning of fossil fuels. Alternative energy sources like solar, wind, waves, tides and geothermal energy. There are proposals to utilize ocean currents as the Gulf Stream and utilize the temperature differential between warm surface water and cold water deeper in the ocean to produce energy. Research these areas has they have been going on for decades now. It has been over 30 years, that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii has been hardly conducting a research of ocean thermal energy conversion,  the OTEC process and its related technologies.