SMU students, faculty helped take Love Field sustainability to new heights

Dallas Love Field Airport is taking sustainability to new heights through an innovative partnership with JetWind Power Corporation to capture wind blasts from aircraft and convert them into environmentally friendly electricity. Students and researchers from SMU (Southern Methodist University) and Clarkson University were in on the early modeling for this new method for generating wind energy.

SMU students and researchers were in on the early modeling for a new method for generating wind energy. Credit: Dallas Love Field

DALLAS (SMU) — Dallas Love Field Airport is taking sustainability to new heights through an innovative partnership with JetWind Power Corporation to capture wind blasts from aircraft and convert them into environmentally friendly electricity.

Students and researchers from SMU (Southern Methodist University) and Clarkson University were in on the early modeling for this new method for generating wind energy. Wind that would otherwise be wasted can now provide clean energy while saving money and lessening stress on energy grids worldwide. 

Read more about the revolutionary technology here: https://bit.ly/3DtNlOY.

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