Eco-minded partygoers will be glad to know there’s a place in London (UK) to frequent. Dr. Earth, real name Andrew Charalambous, has opened Club Surya a nightclub where people who bike or walk there get in for free. Though no one can actually enter until they sign a pledge and commit to take actions that reduce global warming.
The ultra-modern club has its own solar photovoltaic array and wind turbine on top. The solar panels power the refrigerators and flat-screen TVs, the wind everything else. The club promises to donate any excess energy it generates to the community that surrounds it.
If it’s successful, then that could be a lot of electric juice. Even the dance floor generates energy. The dance floor sits on top a piezoelectric system that generates an electric current from dancers gyrating on top. Dr. Earth told Reuters that he expects the dance floor when full of energetic dancers will “provide 60 percent of the club’s energy needs.”
Ah, if only we could solve all our energy needs by dancing.
For a review of the new club try, http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/clubs/club-surya-review-52971.html
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