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SE FLORIDA URBAN CORRIDOR• Adverse impacts from over-populating sensitive environments• Vast coastal wetland until post WW II• Atlantic Coastal Ridge urbanized byearly 1900s• Encroachment of wetlands by mid1900s• 50% of Florida Everglades remainsprotected• Today, 7 million people from Miami toPalm Beach!• By 2020, population will be 10 million!• They will need electrical energy fromclean (green) sources• Is ocean power the answer?
COASTAL CITIES – MIAMI, FLORIDAThis is why we need additional clean (blue) ocean energy!Intense Inner City DevelopmentNeeds Electricity to Run
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Page 5: STUDY AREAOn Cusp ofNearctic and Ne
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Page 13 and 14: THE WATCHDOGS?• United States Cor
Page 15 and 16: REGIONALSETTINGSE Florida AtlanticC
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Page 26 and 27: Southeast FloridaAtlantic ShelfGran
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Page 30 and 31: CONCLUSIONS• The future presence

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