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Butteryfly theory style.

If we're pulling energy out of the wind that was going to go elsewhere, could that impact the weather more than power plants?

Butteryfly theory style. If we're pulling energy out of the wind that was going to go elsewhere, could that impact the weather more than power plants?

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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.

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Logically a tree branch does take energy of the wind that moves it, based on newton's laws. The wind power on our planet is just so extremely vast that it's an immeasurably small amount.

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You are absolutely right, but it isn't a bad thing as OP implies.

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ya, the world was covered in trees before humans

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You don't think trees can block wind? People plant windbreaks for this.