The world’s first eco-disco, Surya, opens for business in the UK with claims that it will be powered by clubbers shaking their stuff on its dance floor. Located on Pentonville Road, London, the King’s Cross nightclub is billing itself as the world’s first eco-disco.

It is the brain-child of Dr Earth (aka property developer Andrew Charalambous who, in the past, stood as a Conservative parliamentary candidate and who has invested £1 million in the project). Dr Earth claims the aim of the venture “is to go beyond the concept of sustainability and into the realm of ecology, generating surplus energy to power not only the club but also neighbouring properties.”

Made of materials such as quartz crystals and ceramics, the venue’s dance floor, they claim, uses the concept of piezoelectricity or, for those dumbwits amongst you, materials which rub together to create a charge … (yeah, I knew that…) Normally used in electric cigarette lighters, this will be the first project of its kind using this technology (although, recently, a US-based project attempted and failed with a similar concept which tried to power battlefield equipment by generators embedded in the soldiers’ boots (obviously doesn’t work so well when the soldiers are dead though - Ed).

Other, more conventional initiatives at the site include a wind turbine, solar energy system, waterless urinals (OK – not sure about that one), low flush toilets, recycling and, somewhat paradoxically, ‘the latest in ecological air conditioning units’.

All guests will be required to sign a pledge to work towards curbing climate change and at it’s launch AND in his Dr Earth guise, Charalambous will be unveiling a “10 point manifesto for all club owners and promoters across the world to adopt and do their bit, however small, towards saving the planet.”

Hosting the glitzy launch party will be luxury jeweller and DJ Jade Jagger with the Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, also rumoured to be attending. No doubt the cha cha cha skills they demonstrated the night of Boris’s Mayoral win will create enough wattage for Jagger to at least spin Duran Duran’s apocalypto-pop anthem, Planet Earth.

Groovy…

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