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In the reading, the author argues that wave-energy facilities will have three advantage by alternating fossil fuel facilities. However, the professor gives arguments as rebuttals. She claims that the view of the using wave-energy is optimistic and seems to be illusion. First of all, the professor contends that the wave-energy facilities are not reliable because it is kind of the new technology, which has some technical malfunction. She worried about the situation when the facilities could not function well due to the harshness of the environment. It cast doubt on the reading passage’s claim that the character of the wave which is predictable and has constant pattern would not guarantee the reliability of the facilities. Secondly, the professor claims that the wave-energy facilities will have bad impact on the environment. She says that while the facilities generate the energy, the toxic chemicals, harmful for natural, will be used for maintaining the some factors in the facilities. Therefore the ocean have to be contaminated by the chemicals leaked through the facilities. It refutes the reading passage’s claim that wave-energy facilities has benefit for environment because it do not burn fossil sources and emits pollutants. Lastly, the professor points out that the scenery of the ocean would be destroyed by the wave-energy facilities which are floated in the ocean. She says that the facilities are brighter than the surface of the ocean, it can impact on the beauty of the ocean, and people would be able to irritate to see the facilities floating in the ocean. It counters the reading passage’s claim that natural scenery will maintain the beauty with small size of the floating facilities in the ocean. |