Electric Dancer

In my grade 11 physics class, I learnt that according to the Law of Conservation of Energy, the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant, such that energy can neither be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form into another. On that note, think about all the energy that is generated in a packed nightclub by the moving, hot and sweaty dancers. A team of environmentalists and architects in Rotterdam, NL have clearly done a lot of thinking about human dance power for their Sustainable Dance Club project. Designed by the environmental organization Envui and the Döll architecture firm, the concept of the Sustainable Dance Club is to generate the electricity required in a nightclub, such as for lighting or sound, through the energy released from the clubber.

Check out the video to see how this is made possible:

Last October, The Critical Mass party was the first to present the concept of the Sustainable Dance Club. Over 1000 dancing people generated electricity for the club together, drank local organic beer, flushed toilets with rainwater, and admired the artwork generated from their body heat and recycled bottles.

Other cool human-powered projects include fitness clubs, bike-powered cellphone chargers (as seen at “Tour De Coachella”) and most recently, “Crowd Farms” to generate enough energy to sustain a power plant.

As seen at Coachella. Check out The Global Inheritance Energy FACTory for more info.