Only solar panels do in fact suck up the sun's energy. On the scale we're talking about, it wouldn't be an issue but the energy from the sun being used by solar panels is energy that can no longer be used to warm the earth through reflection or for photosynthesis. It's energy from the sun that is being captured and not reflected back into the atmosphere, space or being captured by plant's own solar panels. Solar panels wouldn't work if they didn't capture the Sun's energy.

As far as solar energy not being a finite resource or a fossil fuel, what do you think the sun is? It's a gigantic nuclear reactor converting hydrogen into helium through fission and so forth until it hits iron. Once it get's to iron, it stops, game over. Of course that's ~5 billion years out and we'll be worrying more about the corona engulfing the earth than about the small amount of waste energy we collected using solar panels if we are still alive at that point. It's still a problem that supposed scientific media is spreading this unscientific bullshit and leading people to believe that the sun is not a finite resource.

Before yelling at other people to get educated, perhaps being educated yourself might not be a bad idea. Then you can talk about the gains of solar energy versus the impacts instead of making scientifically unfounded statements that violate the conservation of energy principal.

(some other dude): Part of solar energy reflects. The remaining energy divides into heat and electricity. Then the electricity becomes heat via computers and light bulbs. So solar panel just increase the amount of heat we get from Sun because of less reflection.
Learn physics !!!
Sun will fade out either way. More energy you capture the better it is for you otherwise it will travel to deep space with no return.

(OP): And energy is still consumed and captured. The first law of thermodynamics, a bedrock principal of the physics you're telling me to learn, states that it is impossible to create or destroy energy. Solar panels convert solar radiation into both useable and waste energy thus taking the energy out of they system for our use instead of other uses. I'm not against solar farms, the statement that none of the energy of the sun is diverted by solar energy in this article is just wrong from a physics standpoint.