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Grab your hippie friends and get out on the dance floor! On an average night, nightclubs use 150 times the power of a normal household. New clubs in Rotterdam, Holland and London have begun harnessing the energy transmitted from dancing dancers to the floor they're doing the running man on, to recycle into electricity to power the clubs themselves.

The WATT club, which opened less than a month ago, features a dance floor where the disco lights become more dynamic as patrons bump n' grind. The floor even has a meter to show partiers how much energy they’re producing at any given moment on the floor.

"When you dance, you generate energy by the shaking of the ground," Stef van Dongen, director of environmental innovation lab Enviu, told Spiegel. "What we do, very simply, is to capture the movement of dancing people and transform it into energy."

This latest and greatest advancement in energy conservation technology is part of a larger effort by the Sustainable Dance Club (SDC) organization to introduce environmental technology to an industry that's a voracious consumer of electricity.

The green party doesn't stop there, kids. Drinks are stored in basement tanks to save energy by using a central cooling system, and toilets in the club flush with rainwater. The Pee Experience allows pottygoing partiers to watch rooftop rainwater travel through transparent pipes when they flush.

WATT reportedly saves 30 percent in energy and carbon emissions and 50 percent on waste and water compared to most nightclubs. They're following in the footsteps of a green dance floor in London, and the club’s parent company is already planning to bring the sustainable dance floor concept to the United States.

To show his support, rock legend Iggy Pop performed at the WATT club in Rotterdam on Tuesday (Sept. 2)

With this kind of technology, a good ol' fashioned glowsticks-and-pacifiers rave could solve any energy crisis on Earth, and effectively bring an end to nuclear dependence.

So get your dancing shoes on and let's save the world!