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Energy Floors || Home. LED DANCE FLOOR, LIGHTED DANCE FLOORS, ILLUMINATED DANCE FLOOR, LED DANCEFLOORS| LED CEILING PANEL. Walk over Sustainable Dance Club floor tiles to generate power. Piezoelectric power generating technology isn’t quite new, however, its implementation and optimization is becoming more popular these days. We already wrote about Pavegen in one of our previous articles and in this article we’re going to write about an example in Toulouse, France.

The energy provided by pedestrians is used to generate electricity in order to run street lights. A trial section of eight modules already installed in the city produces 50-60 watts – enough to power a street lamp. Deputy mayor Alexandre Marciel, who is also responsible for sustainable development in the city, said the idea has been around for some time but has never been made a reality before, so the project is a world first. The pavement modules were developed by a Dutch company, Sustainable Dance Club (SDC), which supplies illuminated dance floors lit by the energy of the dancers. The first installation was at a dance club, “Club Watt” in Rotterdam last year. Dancers Power Eco-Nightclub | IDDICTIVE.COM | Innovative Business Ideas. Welcome to IDDICTIVE - your daily fix of great business ideas. If you don't want to miss a thing make sure to grab updates by RSS feed or email. It's free and you can cancel them at any time. Picture a club full of hundreds of partygoers all getting their groove on and ‘sustainability’ is probably not the first word that comes to mind.

Rotterdam based Club WATT bills itself as the ‘very first Sustainable Dance Club in the world’ but what’s really interesting is their use of the Sustainable Dance Floor, which turns the movement and weight of dancers to produce energy. And if that wasn’t enough fun for you, the floor lights up ‘a la disco inferno’ to show how much energy is being generated: When you are in a club dancing on the Sustainable Dance Floor, you cannot only feel the energy but you will also experience it. Site: www.sustainabledanceclub.com Via: Incubaker. 13 Awesome Examples of Interactive and Illuminative Flooring. | Hardwood & Laminate Flooring Blog | Floors To Your Home. Posted on February 6, 2010 by Frank A selection of 13 awesome floors that change to the groove of your beat. Since the dawn of time when man lit his first campfire, dance has been a common ritual. Men would jump around the fire, and let their hair down after an exhausting day of hunting and gathering. Over the years cultures have become more civilized, dance has been modernized and the environments have expanded to accommodate it.

After an intense work week tired business people hoard over multicolored lights as sounds pump through the room. They move and they shake and forget all their problems, but now the movers and shakers of science that led us away from that campfire thinking appreciate the fancy footwork even more. Here are a few examples of how innovative technology has made the floor we walk and dance on more than just plain old flooring. 1.

If you walk through the entrance of Comunitat Valenciana in Spain, you’ll be followed by this LED snail trail. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.