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Dancing for Climate Change
Adelevin/Getty Images (heat); Michael C. Hunter (concert)
Body heat from crowds can be stored and reused.
Anyone who’s ever busted a move knows how much heat your body can create while you’re dancing. Normally, that energy goes to waste, but now, a nightclub in Glasgow, Scotland, wants to put it to good use. The club, SWG3, has installed a new technology that turns the heat from dancers’ bodies into renewable energy, using the hot air in the club to charge a thermal battery. That renewable energy can cool and heat the venue, and can be stored for months. SWG3 estimates it’ll save 70 tons of carbon emissions each year. TownRock Energy, the company that developed the technology, hopes this will set a precedent for other venues around the globe. “We would love for different clubs in different cities to start to compete to be the most green,” founder David Townsend told BBC News. “The clubbing generation right now are very enlightened with regards to climate change, and it will make a big difference for clubs to be able to say they’re net zero.”