This weekend we will have "game night" at my house with two or three couples and their children.

When we bought our house, we fell in love with the beautiful hardwood floors so we haven't put down too many rugs.

So when the six or seven children go tearing throughout house, often yelling at the top of their lungs, the sound can be cacophonous.

And more than once, I have said aloud, "if only we could bottle that energy, we could solve the energy crisis.

Well damn if someone didn't go and do that -- sort of.

Leave it to the Dutch.

As this article in The New York Times shows, they did something ingenious. They figured out a way to harness all the energy from the stomping, gyrating and bouncing that goes on in a Euro-dance club and turn that mechanical energy back into electric energy.

Called, appropriately, "Clubb Watt," this Rotterdam club is partly party powered.

This from the Times article: At Watt, which describes itself as the first sustainable dance club, that electricity is used to power the light show in and around the floor. “For this first club, we thought it was useful for people to see the results,” said Michel Smit, an adviser on the project. “But if the next owner wants to use the electricity to power his toaster, it can do that just as well.”

Watt is in large part the creation of the Sustainable Dance Club, a quirky company formed last year by a group of Dutch ecological inventors, engineers and investors now headed by Mr. Smit.

More than a year in the making, Watt is a huge performance space with not just the sustainable dance floor, but also rainwater-fed toilets and low-waste bars. (Everything is recycled.) Its heat is harvested in part from the bands’ amplifiers and other musical equipment.

It's like a bizzare mixed clone of Danny Terrio and Ed Begley Jr.

Anyhoo, kudos to the Dutch for thinking outside the club. Maybe we really can innovate our way out of global warming.

Why do I suddenly hear The Bee Gees singing "You should be dancing yeah....?"