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Glasgow club turns body heat into energy
July 5, 2024
Summary
A Glasgow arts venue that doubles as a nightclub, SWG3, became the first in the world to switch to a power system that turns dancers’ body heat into renewable energy.
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The inventor of the system, called Bodyheat, is geothermal entrepreneur David Townsend. Townsend also happens to be a regular nightclub-goer. He says heating and cooling, in particular, eat up a lot of fossil energy.
To reduce energy waste, he came up with the idea of storing the heat generated by human bodies on the dancefloor and using it as a source of thermal power for heating and cooling the buildings.
“If you have a thousand people in here, that’s enough to heat 65 homes, and a lot of gas that isn’t being burnt.” David Townsend
[https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/can-dancing-save-the-planet-a-scottish-nightclub-is-turning-body-heat-into-energy/00l97odk6](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/can-dancing-save-the-planet-a-scottish-nightclub-is-turning-body-heat-into-energy/00l97odk6)