Well then it should be easy for you to find and present the proof that supports what you're saying rather then just insisting it's out there. The best built windmills cause less resistence to the wind so a windmill built such that it can stop the wind is a poorly built windmill. Likewise enough windmills to stop the wind is self defeating since the wind is required to make them work.
I'll try and find a link explaining how wind pushes windmills.
Here! Here is a link to show you how one works. Notice the wind pushing the windmill.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/wind/wind_animation.html
Here is an explanation from that link:
The energy in the wind turns two or three propeller-like blades around a rotor.
The electricity IS coming from the generator. You are 100% right.What you've been saying is that the energy comes from the wind or that windmills siphon energy from the wind and this is misleading. The best built windmills are the ones that have the least impact on the wind because the wind is the driving force of it but the blades do not suck (siphon) energy from the wind as you keep saying. If you disconnect the generator from the blades the windmill produces nothing even though it's interaction with and impact on the wind is the same. Therefore the wind is not really where the energy is coming from, at least not in the direct sense you keep implying.[/B] The energy is coming from the generator with assistance from the wind.
That electricity is a form of energy. The form that energy was before it was electricty was mechanical as the windmill turns. The form before that was kinetic from the wind.
If you unhook the generator, it will have LESS impact on the wind but will still effect the wind. Just a whole lot less because there is less load on the wind.
I can't agree with that because that's not correct. Windmills extract nothing from anywhere. If they extracted the wind's energy then the wind would be significantly less when it passes. The wind powers the generator that creates the energy but it's all done in a way that has no significant impact on the wind. The wind blows past the blades and just keeps on moving. I do agree that the wind has a finite source of energy but only because the sun will eventually die billions of years from now. To us however and for the purposes of this discussion wind does have a virtually infinite supply of energy. It doesn't blow just a certain distance and die off. Rather it's in a constant state of flux increasing and decreasing according to the environment it's in.
Do you guys see what I'm talking about? He still says windmills extract nothing from anywhere. WHERE DOES IT COME FROM THEN?
Wind does blow a certain distance and die. It's called a pressure gradient.
I studied this stuff in college btw. This isn't my intuition but what has been developed over hundreds of years by mathematicians, physicists, and engineers.
The wind is the sole provider of energy to a windmill. PERIOD. I'm done. I don't care if you believe it.