Previously, I’ve written a couple of articles on going green, and how the environmentalists and industrialists worldwide are going crazy about inventing new techniques to contain global warming. Now, it looks like going Green has been catching up with night clubs all over the world, where they can generate quite a lot of power from those electrifying teenage/middle-aged dancers thumping their feet, consciously or unconsciously, on the dance floor. This is what I call cool technology!
The technology behind this may sound very simple, yet it appears to be powerful enough to generate about 60% (not sure if it is theoretical or practical) of the night club’s electricity. The flexible dance floor is laid out on a matrix of piezoelectric power generating blocks that generate electricity when pressure is applied on them.
Club Watt, based out of Netherlands, has successfully installed this technology to cater to a part of the dance floor’s electricity requirements. They have gone a couple of steps ahead in enabling the club’s toilets with rain water, and generating heat from the music bands’ sound equipments. Surya (wonder who the owners are..), a discotheque at London’s King’s Cross, claim to be the world’s first ecological club.
Taking cue from this piezoelectric-green on the dance floor idea, I may suggest:
- Enable culverts in high-traffic regions with the aforementioned technology
- Enable railway tracks, closer to terminals, with this technology
- Make dancing compulsory for students in high schools and universities
- Research on identifying and perfecting dance moves that may eventually generate the highest power
- Design punch bags that can be plugged to the house’s power line, and prescribe it to people requiring better anger management techniques
- Enable stairways in office buildings with this technology – and do mock fire drills three-times a week (part of the company’s corporate social responsibility program)!
Well, the word ‘go-green‘ does kindle my imagination to come up with new ideas. I’m sure the environmentalists will be having ideas better than the ones proposed by me.
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No ideas here, but this was a fun read. I've never heard about the piezoelectric effect before.
Yes, it is interesting. Wonder if someone could come up with such a dance floor over here..
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Wow! that sounds cool. Do you have some pictures of the setup?
can technology be described?
Wow! que les sons cool. Avez-vous quelques photos de l'installation?
hmm.. interesting idea
This sounds so cool, the faster you get more it glows?
What a lovely green idea – save the planet and dance at the same time.