Yes. Same way that solar panels pull energy out of the sun.... Soon there will be no wind and no sun.

Lets roll another one and contemplate that scenario...

The amount of energy taken from the environment by these renewable farms is infinitesimally small. It's a delusional leftist narrative that such small scale human activity can have significant impacts on natural processes. Tiny variations in solar activity will have more impact on our atmosphere and thus winds than all global human activity.

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Possibly. You're taking energy out of wind. Wind transfers energy through the air. Get rid of that, or weaken its effect, and it can have consequences for the climate both locally and possibly globally. Similarly with solar panels. Normally sunlight that hits the ground is partially reflected and partially absorbed as heat. Photovoltaics convert photons directly into electricity. The electricity is then transferred elsewhere to be used. That has several ramifications: - Instead of being reflected out into space, the sunlight is captured as electricity. Effectively this is a change to the albedo. Electricity is then used to power the grid, meaning almost 100% of it gets dissipated as heat. Yes, you are reading that right: Solar panels cause global warming. - Heat is moved from one location to another. Instead of being generated where sunlight hits the ground, it is now moved in the form of electricity and dissipated elsewhere.

Now, we have to be careful about jumping to conclusions. While these effects are undeniable, there is a question of whether they are significant.

On a global scale the impact shoul be infinitesimal on a regional scale a large wind farm could be effective as a row of trees or a forrest at effecting windspeed.

One of the countermeasures against the dustbowl was planting rows of trees between crops and it did help cut down on dust storms. It's pretty obvious a treeline will cut windspeed.

I imagine the bigger concern is the heat island effect, imagine thousands of square miles of black terrain being added all over the earth creating heat vortexes and effecting wind patterns on a regional scale but it's happening in basically every region on the planet excepting mongolia, central africa, and polar circles.

People ridiculing you, for the most part, haven't thought about this at all.

I would love to see some simulations on the effects of these factors on weather patterns.

Now to be fair it takes a mountain range to break down a real storm but even hills can cause a tornado to fall apart.

The scale and effects of weather systems and their total energy are decreasingly intuitive as they get larger, I'd bet part of this is nonlinear growth and our two common perspectives are from above and below a storm but the height of a storm front is generally ignored. Those factors combined with the way atmospheric energy can rapidly flash into a stormcell without much warning is why weather seems so mysterious, it's unintuitive that a clear sky is full of energy that can begin to convert when a variable changes.

Using your logic, tree branches swaying in the wind are 'pulling' energy, so we should cut down all the trees.
There are several valid arguments against wind farms and wind energy, but this isn't one of them.

In theory yes, wind energy is being transferred into electricity. But the question is if it's enough to matter, I think it would take a ridiculous amount of turbines to have any real effect, probably impossible.

I suspect the bigger concern is they kill bats by the truckload.

Bats like... Do shit, ecologically. I see the potential for plenty of Maoist bullshit.

That wind was going to provide stress to the plants which they need otherwise they become weak and start to wilt. Taxing the wind of its energy is creating a limp and puny plant society dependent upon the government to prop them up by tying them to sticks stuck into the ground. What are the sticks made of? You guessed it... Trees cut down from the rainforest. It's a vicious cycle.