Wave Farms are composed by a series of devices, that can harnest the energy of waves. Although this devices are floating, they are achored to the sea floor, so they do not drift away. There are many shapes and sizes of wave energy converters, so we refrain to ilustrate them here.
Wave Farms are used to produce green energy, in the MSP challenge the calculated amount of energy produced by a wind farm is based on its area.
Wave farms are depicted as polygons, i.e., geometric shapes that you can draw in, edit or remove when making a plan. They create the following pressures on the ecosystem:
Return to energy.
The placement restrictions decide whether the overlap of spatial elements causes:
Errors - Impossible to place these layers on top of each other due to physical limitations.
Warnings - Warnings that it should be done, but won't stop the placement.
The ecological pressures are scaled on a level from 0 to 1; with 0 meaning no pressure, and 1 meaning the maximal impact on that pressure.
Wind farms disallow all the bottom trawl, and industrial and pelagic trawl fishing fleets. Drift and fixed nets fleets are only disallowed during construction.
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