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Several figures
06/2006
- World power (2005) : 59 000 MW (less than 1% of electricity consumption)
- World power (2005) : 4 x world power in 1999
- MW cost (2005) : 1/5 of 1999 cost
- World potential : 10% of 2017 consumption
- French potential : 85 TWh/year (21 000 000 families)
- Only 1% of windfarm surface is used by turbines and access roads
- Wind turbines kill 1 bird while cars kill 10 000 000 of them
- World potential can produce 5 x world energy needs, or 40 x current electricity world needs
- At the end of the XIXth century, there were 30 000 wind mills in Europe
