Seacoastonline advances Dagher’s Aug. 6 talk about wind energy
Seacoastonline.com advanced Habib Dagher’s talk at 7 p.m. Aug. 6, at the York High School Auditorium. Dagher, founding director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, will talk about capturing energy from wind over the Gulf of Maine and resultant advantages to the state. Dagher and UMaine colleagues have developed floating wind turbine hull technology to harness winds over ocean depths of 150 feet or more. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded UMaine $40 million to build a floating wind turbine demonstration project to test the technology, develop the supply chain and determine the floating wind turbines’ impacts on the environment, fish and birds. Winds over the Gulf of Maine can annually produce more than 156 gigawatts of clean, renewable energy. The state of Maine annually uses 2.4 GW, according to the article.