Yeah, so this blog is all about yoga type things and complementary health and stuff like that, so obviously I’m a repressed hippie with eco-concerns…….Eco-clubbing eh?  This is a pretty cool concept – I heard about it on the radio this morning.  A new club in London is now eco friendly.  The crowning glory is their dance floor that uses the movement of the dancers to create electricity – how cool is that?  The dancefloor is piezoelectric

I’m not a big clubber, but I’m all for this!  The website was pretty difficult to find, because they aren’t well SEO’d, you are in fact more likely to come across the guardian article, or maybe one of the blogs about it but here it is – Club Surya – headed by Dr Earth who seems to be style on Dr Evil. Lol

Now evidently, there is some controversy.  Dr Earth (real name Andrew Charalambous) is, by all accounts, an eccentric millionnaire with close ties to Boris Johnson (London’s new Mayor)….which is how he got permission to keep the club open all night, despite King’s Cross rather stringent noise level constraints.  Then there is the claim that it is the first eco-club, which is contested by the sustainable dance club in the Netherlands.

Well, whatever, they can fight it out between them, I’m more interested in the future application of piezoelectriciy – i mean surely we can put this down anywhere we have high volume of human traffic…..what about indoor football fields, squash courts, restuarants, shopping malls, airports?  I don’t know if it is even technologically possible, or feasible financially, but it sounds like a good idea to me.  What about we put every office worker on an exercise bike at their desk for an hour a day and make them pedal to create some electricity to power their pc?…..we win two ways – keep the population fit, and reduce carbon footprint