Waves start out in the deep, open ocean as relatively vertical in shape, Presnell said. As a wave travels toward the shore, though, the bottom part of the wave drags along the ocean floor.

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A 2012 heat wave off the East Coast of Canada and the U.S., the largest on record at the time, pushed lobsters northward. It beat the previous record — a 2011 marine heat wave that uprooted seaweed, ...

While squeezing every ounce of these kilowatt hours from the ocean is likely impossible, wave energy could still account for around 10–20 percent of the U.S.’s renewable energy mix.