Eco-friendly dance club set to hit Cape Town

Nightclub news now - Britain's first eco-nightclub which generates its power from people cutting steps on the dance floor, opened in London last night.

Cyclists and walkers get free admission  and the dance floor is so high-tech it generates its own electricity when people move on it. The venue has the latest air flush, waterless urinals and low flush toilets and sells drinks in polycarbon cups.

According to Springwise - the craziness that is Club4Climate also hopes to open similar sustainable dance clubs in New York, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro.

We're not convinced.  Sounds like a fun gimmick, but if the place sucks and draws the wrong crowd how will it ever be successful.

More to read: Daily Mail

Comments

[Russell]

I reckon it's a gimmic, but it will draw the crowds at first.

[Fish]

It just needs to be a trance club. The eco idea will suit the hippie trance vibe and the associated foot stomping will probably generate surplus power.

[jacki janse van rensburg]

it is a gimmic, but it does give food for thought. i think generating power by alternative, clean means is always worth looking at. for gimmic to saving the world...

[Rox]

There's also one in the Netherlands, and they must be doing ok if they're opening across the world.

Not so sure that it's a 'gimmick' thing, it's an eco initiative thing and a pretty clever one at that. It doesn't have to be a trance club at all - surely it's not just hippies who are eco conscious?

Then again, South African's are not that progressive minded when it comes to eco issues, so it may not be as successful as the other ones if people don't get the point.