Electric Slide Meets the Olympics

By Katelyn Thompson on February 18, 2010 From Renewable Energy campaign

(Additional reporting contributed by Johnny Kilroy)

We all know there is power in a party.  But there is also a way to generate renewable energy through busting a move.

The innovative Dutch architect Henk Döll has brought the world of PARTY-generated power to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. This monumental event spurred BC Hydro to partner with Sustainable Dance Club, a company based out of Holland, to create a raging club that uses the latest in technology to reduce energy usage.

The Sustainable Dance Floor™, first installed in club WATT in Rotterdam, generates electrical power through a process called piezoelectricity.  As the spring-loaded floor compresses down onto crystal blocks, it creates small electrical currents that charge batteries, which in turn allow the party to continue.

Club Energy is the name of the venue in Vancouver featuring Döll’s dance floor.  Not to be overshadowed by the winter games, Club Energy is hosting an international dance competition, to see which country’s feet can generate the most power.

Droves of people are coming from around the world to experience the wonderful city of Vancouver, to partake in its tasty libations, and to spend a week out of the year pretending to be very interested in obscure sporting events.  Large events with exceedingly large gatherings of people are notorious for inflicting damage and waste on the surrounding environment.  The winter Olympics will be no different, what with all the cups, flyers, cars and transit used to get around Vancouver, Canada.

Hopefully, with Döll’s dance floor, the rollicking mobs will at least be put to work.  It’s like a nineteenth century treadmill, except without the misery.

This was Electric Slide Meets the Olympics, an entry in our Renewable Energy Campaign from February 18, 2010.

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