Charles Finkl, Potential Environmental Impacts from Tapping Ocean ...

THE PROBLEM WITH SURFACE ROUTESON TOP OF THE SEAFLOOR• There is no direct route from the EPU farm to the shore• The cable route must pass through a reef gap• Reef gaps do not line up between reef tracts• Reef gaps do not line up with with breaks in hard grounds• Cables laid on sand flats compromise future other uses ofthe sand resource, for beach renourishment for example• The solution? Go underground with directional drillingUNDER the coral reefs and hard grounds