Club WATT, Rotterdam, claims to be the world’s first sustainable club. As well as using low energy systems, recycled material and rainwater for flushing the toilets, they have introduced an amazing new ‘sustainable dance floor’. This can produce up to 20 Watts of energy per dancer. The harder you dance the more energy you produce. Discodamaged urges more clubs to follow this lead.
Sustainable dance floor
The Sustainable Dance Floor is a concept of the Sustainable dance club. This movable floor of approximately 30 square meters turns the movement of dancers into electricity which is used to light the floor. This “energy bright dance floor” is the first dance floor which uses the energy of the dancers. The floor is made from 65 x 65 cm modules which make a small vertical movement of up to 1 cm when you dance on them. This movement is converted by means of sophisticated electromagnetic induction into electric current. The fiercer you dance, the more power you produce, up to 20 Watt. The energy meter motivates you to reach the maximum feasible energy level. This way you become aware of the relation between your behaviour and the surroundings; this is the “Sustainable Experience”. This intelligent floor uses LED reduction and recycled material. Every dancer, depending on the weight and the energy of their dancing, produces a capacity of 2 to 20 Watts; this will not be quite enough to provide WATT completely with energy.
Pee experience
Generally flushing the toilet is something you don’t think about. At WATT it’s different. When you press the flush button, you see filtered rain water that has been caught on the roof “sky water system” flowing flowing from the ceiling. Savings: WATT uses a sky water system: rain water is caught on the roof and purified in an underground tank, it is thereupon used for flushing toilets. (approx. 550,000 litres = approx. 80,000 toilet flushes per year) All urinals are waterloos. On an annual basis almost 1,000 m3 of water is saved.
More at http://www.watt-rotterdam.nl/
