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Comment by jillesvangurp

2 days ago

Not in a way that matters (is at all noticeable) until long after the sun expands and wipes out all life on earth in a few billion years. Of course by then, the moon will be quite a bit further from earth than it is today and might become tidally locked with the earth as the earth rotation slows down and eventually matches the speed at which the moon rotates. So there is that.

In the same way, we're not running out of geothermal energy (a tiny part of the heat actually comes from the moon pulling magma around, the rest from radioactive decay and residual hit from when our planet was created). Technically more heat radiates out via our crust naturally than we'll ever need.

So, technically yes but not in a way that actually matters on the time scales we have left on earth, which technically will become a lot more hostile over time anyway. A billion years from now, things will be very much changed here. Minuscule loss of momentum in the moon's orbital movement will be the least of our concerns there.