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Electricity: French production: 567 Billions of Kw-hours per year

would need 220.500 windmills to produce such amount of electricity

If we put them in a line at half a mile distance: the line woud go 3 times round the world

Power of a windmill is very small compared to other sources of electricity

French Ministy of Economy and Energy: 2004 annual official report
(l'Energie en France Edition 2004) (cliquer pour lire le rapport)