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That sounds unlikely to me.
Can you post your equations proving this?
Or better still, link to a peer reviewed paper proving this?
This paper from the royal society estimates the earth's rotation is slowing at 1.8 milliseconds per century.
So you claim that humans use of tidal energy will increase this (over 1000 years) from 18 milliseconds to 31,536,000 seconds.
That is an increase of about 1 x 10^10
From what I can see with some back of the envelope maths is that your claim is pure horse shit.
The linked article does provide calculations. The main assumption for such a short prediction appears to be that the rate of energy consumption will continue to grow exponentially, which to me seems unsustainable regardless of the production method.