SEPTEMBER 10, 2021|ENVIRONMENT + SUSTAINABILITY
Glasgow Nightclub Uses Body Heat of Dancers To Power The Venue
To coincide with the COP26 Climate Change Summit, a Scottish nightclub is trialling a new system that can harness the body heat of dancers to power the venue and reduce its carbon emissions. The system works by using small “boreholes” dug out underneath the dancefloor and across the venue.
If it works, the applications of this could be amazing for many other situations beyond nightclubs such as gyms, train stations, playgrounds and more. Now we just need to create a name for this so it can be advocated for like solar power or wind energy. Bounce energy? Pedal power? Kinetic transfer? Now I’m pretty sure I’ll be thinking about this all day ...
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