To the editor: A front-page article describes a undertaking doubtlessly starting inside a couple of months to construct a “surf park” (“Massive wave machine — by the ocean — rolling into El Segundo,” Oct. 25). It will use about 5 million gallons of water and nevertheless a lot power is required to create surfable waves inside a mile or so of a preferred browsing seaside in El Segundo.
How precisely does this match into our continued efforts to cut back water use, or into conscious power conservation to sluggish local weather change?
In the meantime, round a month in the past, an article ran within the Los Angeles Instances about AltaSea, an organization now in a pilot undertaking on the Port of Los Angeles, putting in gear on a pier to transform wave power to electrical energy.
Altogether, these are some attention-grabbing views relating to waves and our priorities for them.
Linda Washburn, Manhattan Seaside
