500,000 volt electrical arc

[Freezienator]

no fake thats real.. i have seen something like this live..

[fishercoen]

When the spark first appear, it heats the air. The heated air gives better conduction so the spark rises.

[xwowx4]

that happend when anonymous hacked down sopa.

[ShabazDraee]

imagine touching that ?

[Nilthyfigger]

WOOO!

[MagnitudeOfSoul]

is this HAARP thought cos it does look like the HAARP tower thingys

[VyperEye89]

That is so awesome!

[danoh40]

Nice video. Thanks for the clear description.

[sevdeltasquad1]

that scary! :D!

[tristandaman121]

whats an electric arc

[LeviR34]

that.......was fucking cool

[jake3085]

If only my mot could produce that sort of power

[joscha1999]

adobe after effect ?

[enigma800]

@joscha1999 brainless imbecile?

[setus1699]

@enigma800 hahaha

[NarutoSage23]

I have the pooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaa­ahhhhhhhhhhhh

[dancewithsomewolfs]

the "whoa" was a little delayed

[JohnyMalbor]

wanna touch it

[mtdeezy]

That "Whoa!" gets me every time.

[createallow3126]

Nothing I haven't felt in my pants. :P

[kllrdude1]

That is an amazingly frightening amount of power.

~S~

[Gamerforever1]

throw water :D !! i really like to see what happen xD

[xXTEDXx]

Pretty sure those guys could have felt the wrath of God if the arc got out of hand. lol.

[VivaVanilla1]

but know that are 500kv this is poo!!!! 

[Spoukis98]

go touch it!!! you will get superpowers!! like infamous!

[willi19391]

I can't stop staring at this. Magnificent!

[Coolfunfunfun]

YO, PECO U GOT SOME SERIOS PRBLEMS

[DrFrohman]

JIMMY!

[MrMicaga]

Cool!!!

[Omatunto]

the sound is as amazing as the sight

[bikernut1969]

That's some crazy shit.

[andrekorea]

O___O

[RenjiLambrusco]

500k; How many homes could that power? Was that lost energy? I can't grasp what 500k is. I know it looks fucking awesome now though.

[enigma800]

@RenjiLambrusco With that high a voltage (500,000 volts), this is a regional substation that feeds about 5 other smaller substations which probably feeds about 300,000 homes all combined. What you're seeing is a regional substation to regional substation line. Those are at very high voltages. Whereas regional substation to local substation is usually 66,000 volts.

[RenjiLambrusco]

@enigma800 holy shit, thanks man.

[thegaryman5]

@RenjiLambrusco not muct lost energy wen its arcing cause it's practically a mega spark(last bolt of electrons b4 da switch is fully open) , oh btw and the reason y they use 500kv in the regional sub, from memory i think its the most efficient way to carry the current over long distances without it being too lossy ;) food 4 thought

[TheLivirus]

@thegaryman5 Your memory is accurate.

P(power loss)=R(resistance)*I(current)­^2

Power loss is only depending on resistance and current, not voltage. Although, since:

P(electrical power) = V(voltage)*I(current)

...by raising the voltage we can lower the current without lowering the amount of electrical power delivered. Combined with the first formula we can thus significantly reduce the losses by raising the voltage.

I think the voltage of choice is generally a compromise between loss and risk.

[PHGNetworks]

@RenjiLambrusco

Go learn some physics then you'll know that enery wont be "lost", energy transforms.

[RenjiLambrusco]

@PHGNetworks if it didn't make it to a home or wasn't used by a person or machine then doesn't that imply that it was "lost". Are u saying that energy is neither created nor destroyed? oh, golly, do you have any of your physics notes from university still? I need them.

[PHGNetworks]

@RenjiLambrusco

In that instance, electrical energy is transformed to heat energy, if you make energy, nuclear for example, then you transform physical movement energy into heat and electical energy. So energy is allways transforming, but its still staying in one form or another.

[RenjiLambrusco]

@PHGNetworks i see.

[imFlyPaper]

So that kinda Thrives on the arc growing in distance to function?



[Overlordnim]

that.. THAT.. was... awesome...

[temojs]

where is your god now?

[shroomingnewman]

that dude fucking screams out in excitement. i woulda been the same way

[slosh1997]

i know that could be very dangerous but man that was pretty badass

[peaveyst7]

awesome

[MyRosenn]

This is 500 kV? Bullshit, it is 100-140 kV...

[enigma800]

@MyRosenn Bullshit? Really? Why don't you go and find Neil Brady, who is the lineman who captured this video and tell him yourself? I'll believe a lineman 100 times over before I'd believe any of your "bullshit" observations, asshole.

[lexander5]

@MyRosenn

100 kV would be about as much as a wimshurst machine would manage. But this flash is far bigger than one of a wimshurst machine.

[tonypham2312]

Marty McFly is going back to the future

[bigphreaking]

@tonypham2312 That was awesome dude, I cannot stop laughing.

[woltarius]

Zapraszam Na Mój Kanał Pogodowy Ale i Nie Tylko. I invite you on my weather channel but not only.

[alopez850]

ALLRIGHT WHO DIVIDED BY ZERO!?!!!?

[Elijah1595]

DAM ELECTRICITY YOU SCARY!!!

[RehannaC]

ooooooh my god that is really scary!!

[FelixErikson]

But will it blend?

[02rhs]

HAARP is the machine

[TarnationCarnation]

It's beautiful.

[zombiekillerof115]

that was awesome

[HedgehogStudios1]

Tif you rubbed your cheek on it it would feel like the morning sun shining on your face. It would also make you explode, so don't actually do it.

[cs512tr]

"Whooo!"

[EVAUnit4A]

@cs512tr

I think he used a four-letter word there instead... I know I would have.

[Mike190]

I wonder what would happen if you rubbed your face all over it.

[turktech1]

What manner of sorcery is this

[outwithlunch]

fuckn high volts, haha I wonder what whould happen if a plane was to fly in that!

[UnderProgamer]

0:10 people: woahh o0.... xD

[outwithlunch]

nice....

[Ivin3690]

whoa what are my eyes seeing

[codystout71]

thats like static electricity to chuck noris

[codystout71]

i wonder what would happen if you were to pee on it

[enigma800]

@codystout71 I don't know, why don't you give it a go and let's see?

[shamgate]

@enigma800 Did you mean to say "let's pee"?

[codystout71]

@enigma800 no thanks i actualy want to have kids not sure bout u tho lol XD

[kingtrix24]

@enigma800 post it on youtube! =P

[mat31new]

@codystout71 the pee would get in your knee

[sparkster7744]

WOAH!

It's like... Electric fire xD

[checho316ish]

are we back to 1985?

[daftrok]

Goku powering up.

[eliwins6]

Touch it I dare u :)

[Kuragari1988]

OMG soooo creepy...



[gardan66]

i wanna touch it :P

[etard82]

beautiful

[XGreenXAndy]

Is this called Haarp ?!?

[J88Wolf]

It's elive, it's ELIVE! MUHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

[rodrigobme]

say LOL

[DOLRED]

Weird--why did the other two legs snap clean--just coincidence for this one line?

[enigma800]

@DOLRED There's a device called a switcher that's supposed to kill the current, so that when the disconnects open, they're not energized. The switcher was malfunctioning and let one of the three phases stay energized. What you see is the result, a fully energized phase free to arc all over the place.

[imFlyPaper]

@enigma800 So Why does the arc Travel upwards, into a longer arc, is that a change in field resulting from the arc / change in circuit, carbon, Heat air density ? ? ? And where does this stuff happen?

[sctprog]

@imFlyPaper

The electricity ionizes the air, creating tons of heat & a conductive path for current, heat rises causing the ionized gas to go up.. this continues until the resistance of the gas is greater than what is required for an arc to span the air gap.

[louisjr7007]

lol



[zachary00005]

@louisjr7007 whats funny?

[betomembrane]

Where Chuck Norris recharges his phone

[hootergirlsrhot]

i love the sound of electricity in the morning :)

[jothugs]

fuck chuck norris

[ShadowCloudcc]

Very ummm... what's the word... ELECTRIFYING!

[mycrazyguy101]

timmy can you stand over there for a moment? lol

[jess401]

Anyone else see the shape of a man in the electric arc

[bestdudeever765]

how to become electro in 2 steps?

1. wear electric absording suit that absords electricy as power

2. go to dat lightning

[HemishPtl]

Damn electricity, you scary....

[razzo161]

imagine if someone touched it...

[ItZzDonno]

close your eyes and listen to the vid all the way through...thats what happens when i jizz

[iRouRoui]

how many kVolts or Amps are in there? I need numbers !!!

[enigma800]

@iRouRoui 33.3 Million Volt Amperes of compensating inductive reactance (MVAR) at 290 kV between each phase to ground . The power company had previously encountered difficulty interrupting one of the three phases when trying to disconnect the line reactor. The substation maintenance crew set up a special test so that they could videotape the switching event, and they also made arrangements to "kill" the experiment, if necessary, by manually tripping upstream circuit breakers.

[irvin295]

@iRouRoui OVER A BILLOIN TRILLIONS I MEANT BECAUSE THOUSANDS WOULDNT CAUSE THAT

[Giuliano105]

hot like the sun

[swsxsasds]

Стрелять-колотить!!! )))

[masonashlock]

Cooool, can I touch it?

[Carljonsson1]

awesome !

[Enginering88]

те кто говорит что это аварийный режим плюньте ему врожу это обычный рабочий режим с ёмкосными токами....

[forcefedlies86]

I use one of those to light my bong.

[enigma800]

@forcefedlies86 You must have one hell of a bong!

[rxmaster]

@enigma800  xD

[outwithlunch]

@forcefedlies86 Ya! what a cool guy. I do to lol

[TTEOTD88]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!

[zebraloo]

i love the one guy at the end who openly admits that was fucking awesome

[MrSparklehooves]

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?

[kloratis]

спасибо, подрочил

[Mrjoecreeper]

scary...

[neutralina333]

Cool! Thank you 4 this info.

But i get no 'suggestions' up the side of this video. Does this happen to any1 else?

[ShikaTrinity]

Somebody forgot to put away his Pikachu xD

[DavidHoward1995]

ZZNNZNZNZNGZNZZNZZNZZZZZZZGZZZ­ZZZZZZZ....WOO!

[Wesley683]

at ending:

WOH

[disturbedlink1]

Wow, that sends shivers down my spine, I wish I could Ride The Lightning...

[Ducttapestuff]

That was cool as hell.

[bikyniechloe]

OMG !!

[fundamentalscience]

Выключается выключатель высокого напряжения и самоиндукция порождает огромную искру.

[kenmaster45]

WOO-

[USFullOfLies]

It's called HAARPing the shit out of your country.

[Natervader13]

9 seconds of pure awesomeness

[paio24]

jojojojo very nice

[mafizon]

20 pessoas tomaram choque

[MohamedArslanPK]

Shoking...



[Isjix]

I can feel radiation going through me D:

[eSScODRiNgfy]

SOMETHING HAS FOUND US!!!

[gumdrops27]

Looks like a pretty intense jump rope

[mohdraef]

20 people doesnt know what is electricity

[cristiano4227]

IM THE 100TH LIKE!!!!!!

[IHATEAFGHANISTAN]

So this is why our electic bills are so damn high lol......get it?!? Very cool!

[ManuelGimenezDeCastr]

look's legit.

[Aurocastro]

OMFG ITS OVER 9000 VOLTS

[Rambo120ful]

To čumím,hustý fakt

[Sidewinder9877]

Damn that's wicked!! Don't think I'd want to be anywhere near that. 500,000 volts is enough to make you simply explode.

[NirvanaMegadeth1567]

thats probly chuck norris' night light

[Karmaluvr222]

Thehuge8ball, why r ur wrds upside down? O.o

[dannon18]

got a marshmallow? 

[VladyslavYakovenko]

OH MY GOLD

[MrJerichoCross]

is it suppose to be like that?? or is it a failure?

[enigma800]

@MrJerichoCross No, it's not supposed to do that.

[PathosDistanz]

@enigma800 But it is possible to 'create' lightning. The Soviets engaged in lightning producing experiments during WWII. In the late 50s and early 60s, American scientists began making similar experiments.

[ThundareRed]

@enigma800 Its expected to happen though

[imupnsmoke]

Chuck Noris' tazer

[Inferno283]

@imupnsmoke chuck doesn't need a tazer, he simply points to the person, and lighting shocks the hell out of them.

[THEFINALHAZARD]

@imupnsmoke XD I'm dying here!

[RorHemi]

Damn electricity, you scary.

[baydounjaafar]

this is an Air Circuit Breaker.

[linuxxd1]

la verdad es para ser usado para la guerra

[mhatthei]

Someone brought marshmallows?

[wow1022]

disconnect the load before you disconnect that :P

[tonydickhoff]

looks like flames in the air

[Omlegger]

@UnionFireCo37

Nah, just a s**tload of electrons and photons. ;)

[Mravci555]

pre boha...

[HaloReachFEC]

that always looks so awesome

[zommza]

if my grandma saw this she would probably say, "Man I bet they have a high electricity bill!"

[exaking]

They forgot to send arnold schwarzenegger through.

[MrRaceRaceRace]

Wooooooooooooooooooooooh o.o

[MrDalePorter]

I WANNA TOUCH IT!!!

[asxetos666]

@MrDalePorter Im pretty sure u don't xD

[paladin1352]

I wonder how much bigger it would've gotten if they didn't flip the breaker