Comment Re:Ugly Solution (Score 1) 197
Netherlands have experience with dam breaches and flooding. They have about as much experience with tsunamis as Scotland or Italy.
The 2011 tsunami wasn't a towering wave like in disaster movies but a quick & relentless rising sea level. Same concept as a flooding although a bit larger in scale. The friction exerted by dike slopes also help reduce the wave's kinetic energy and could potentially be used to generate electric power in normal conditions.