Wire Story Details Wind Power Grant Uses

An Associated Press story that includes details of how UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center will utilize a $3 million federal grant. In the story, which ran in Forbes magazine’s website Habib Dagher, director of the center, is quoted as saying the funding will be used for a lab station, or “cell,” where prototype blades and towers will be made out of experimental materials to withstand off-shore stresses and will be a cornerstone function of the lab.

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