Harnessing the Wind with Flexor Energy

One Saturday afternoon a few years ago, David Labrecque was driving through downtown when he looked up and saw a large banner for Oronos Festival Day hanging across Main Street. The sign was flapping in the wind.

This banner was just flipping back and forth, Labrecque said during a recent interview in his office in the University of Maines Aubert Hall. I thought, wow, theres a lot of energy there. How could we do that?

It wasnt the first time Labrecque had been inspired to think about wind energy. But the sight of the banner that windblown day gave him some inspiration for his latest effort....

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