Aug 19 2008

Move Over Wind, Solar: Dancing is In

Proving you can find renewable energy resources anywhere, Spiegel International reports that a new technology developed by Enviu, an environmental innovation lab, creates renewable energy by utilizing the tremendous energy expended by club goers.

" 'When you dance, you generate energy by the shaking of the ground,' Stef van Dongen, director of environmental innovation lab Enviu, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. 'What we do, very simply, is to capture the movement of dancing people and transform it into energy.'

The club will be among the first in the world to give back some of what dancers leave on the floor -- and it is part of a larger effort by Enviu subsidiary Sustainable Dance Club (SDC) to introduce environmental technology to an industry that has traditionally been a voracious consumer of electricity. Your average nightclub swallows up 150 times the amount of power normal households do. Club Watt plans to use 30 percent less."

Now I wonder if that means they'll lower the cover charge...

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