500kV Electric Discharge at Power Station

[45llamas]

ems because??

[espionage69979]

raiden wins fatality

[coolaidkiller101]

holy shit a 50 foot long arc!

[Crawlincracker]

Curious how they end said video clip with a promotion for "Science" insted of one promoting the LINEMEN who are doing the ACTUAL WORK. Without Linemen you wouldn't have shit but THEORY!

[illumined1]

@Crawlincracker and without theory linemen wouldn't have a job. what's your point?

[bigman6665]

i second that one..

[mike241273]

That would power the flux capacitor

[GhostXoP]

damn wizards

[mrdeetothejay]

11 people were standing too close..

[fabiopq]

raiden wins. flawless victory.

[espionage69979]

@fabiopq shut the fuck up fagat

[xxkittenkiller]

this is the coolest thing i have ever seen

[nabeelmerchant]

Too many people below drink excessive brandy and 7 glasses of flurodated water and coke everyday. Its time for change.

[wkLeoTrooper]

Why is all the most fun stuff so dangerous?

[CustomER101233]

@wkLeoTrooper It wouldn't be so funny if it were not dangerous :D

[wkLeoTrooper]

@CustomER101233 Touché lol

[SymBionicTitanHiDef]

Touch it.

[Townsieboy]

"your ipod is now fully charged"

[Enigma2112]

Now that's mother fuckin' impressive!

[awesomelightning]

LAWLZ probably the second biggest arc there is! (lightning, anyone?)

[spencnaz]

FRIES ARE DONE!

[Caboos4042]

Whoa, that was cool

[FlightSimx97]

I think its funny when people say don't play with electricity and then you just think how fricking fun it is to do that for a living! Sit it a box and flip switches that do cool things with electricity

[coldblooded666]

Anybody else notice the dude on the left, just walking away like nothing was happening?

[TheLuckymoon]

@coldblooded666 : and one time, and two times,.... it become ah habit....

[siperdellyeer]

just like science fiction but then real

[dixiechuck]

great ozone generator ....

[hootergirlsrhot]

playing with electricity is fun

[0909asd0909]

touch it

[1990chrism]

oooo wow! free science lectures they'll go well with my course at the university of street cleaning!

[gamerke21]

i love the WOW at the end :D

[Marcin6313]

Now all you need to do is stick that in a gun and you'll have the wunderwaffle from cod:world at war!! :)

[DeathDude72]

I'm sorry, that's frickin aawesome. 

[insightllc]

@google @microsoft @apple @cnn @msnbc @foxnews @youtube

THEY FUCKED UP... IF THE CAN HIDE THIS...

The first man-made earthquake was #333 on September 3, 1899.

Shide No. 337 is one of the early shocks on September 10 and No.

Earthquake 338 the heaviest shock of September 10.

[RaykoDrg]

scary

[Kuula10]

1.21 Giga Watts!?!

[RegistrationCop]

@Kuula10 Lol back to the future!

[oIPoiiZo]

holy shit! Thats crazy

[Zarac1121123]

ITS OVAR 9000!

[izrafel1989]

beautiful sound!!!

[proaudiohd]

spam

[Inconel1981]

This is why I don't wear jewelry at work.

[Mattrocks187]

pikachu use thunderbolt now lol...

[Mattrocks187]

pikachu use thunderbolt now!!!!

[Naiuhz]

Vegeta! What does the scouter say about the voltage level?

It's over nine thousand!!!!!

[finalkamehamehaflash]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[awesomelightning]

@Naiuhz whats with you and nine thousand? On the kitteh cute video, you said nine thousand! 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 PWNGE!

[DolceGlebbano]

Сука, сейчас терминатор родится)

[GunsOfThePhoenix]

its alive, its alive!

[Nintendavin]

Now THAT's a power level over 9000.

[Frankfurtdabezzzt]

FUCK YEAH ELECTRONIC

[damiresq]

Raiden wins - fatality :)))))

[buokopter]

i want smell the air

[cockneyskinhead]

DAVE....I think you wired it back to front mate - boy we're in trouble!!!

New pants please!!

[sskittl3z]

wtf!?! lol i can imagin im playign basketball on the street and that happens then evryone freaks out

[Blobsterss]

I am an electrician.

I can tell you, that I eat arc flashes like that for breakfast.

Everyday I disconnect a highpower grid with my bare teeth!

[fengineer08]

My "Big" uncle Ed once put his balls across two phases of a 13.8kv bus just to see how it felt.

[criptonito]

Nice plasma arc

That can turn on my lighter.

[Monkeypumper420]

I'd like to power my car audio system with that!

[TheoreticChaos]

I came to this.

[SPTSuperSprinter156]

WOW!

[ynzboy]

whoa sexy!

[ukthk555]

there de energising the conductors for maintenanse i assume? thuss the the electricity arking the newly created gap in the circuit if you look closley you can see them breaking the connection but the electricity wants to carry on and jumps accross untill its too far? i think that any way

[rockymountainradio]

yes, that's about right

[hmmsmellslikefish]

that was awesome.

[goodfellas63]

lol my toaster is broking so can i use yours??

[ZXC5000]

You have to admit, it is quite beautiful too

[rainerfilm]

Nice tazer.

[farerse]

yeah if you need to taze a whale..

[SooMellow]

shit iz that reall

[438426x1]

god dammit! this isnt a discharge! did it look like one quick thunderbolt? that was a constant arc, dumbass.

[skinnycimmerian]

ha ha ha, he's right ya know. a thunderbolt you might live through, that arc may render you completely unidentifiable by modern science.

[wsmith68]

You know how people claim to see Jesus' face? I think I saw Satans!

[lexichronicle]

it's only rivalled by 'substation explodes'

[lexichronicle]

i've been reading about and watching videos like this, tesla coils and jacobs arcs since i was about 11, and I'm now 24. And this is still by far the most incredible video I've seen

[kacotakuPxc]

Yeah!

[boxa888]

i put up info on teslas wireless energy system if you want to know how it works, i have even made a small transmission system! its so important to showing how we would have wireless energy forever

[onnbob]

damn u can really see the true size of this arc.. look at 0:07 the bottom left corner u see the lil ppl then u see the BIG arc

[webbhead92]

It was going so well. Then they had to ruin it with the boring shit at the end.

[takeneo]

Why its go up? Because ionized air going up? (Sorry for my English)

[2ndKnight]

Because hot air and plasma is less dense.  Look up "Jacob's Ladder".

[atleastitsnotcrack]

Wow that took quite some time to disconnect

[lejink]

if i had some billions sittin around.. id have one of these in my back yard.. id never get bored of throwin that switch

[MrWhynotme68]

@lejink It would probably cost you thosands in electricity every time

[ProphetOfBaphomet]

DUDE! the horns! awesome, who could have thought ionisation could be so deliciously satanic!!!!!!!!!

[madmax0]

haarp

[Gmail0509]

can we light a cigarret in that?

[sasho54]

Of course. But you will smoke in the heaven. :)

[Gmail0509]

thanks god i'm not a smoker! :)))

[fuzzyshackels]

lol!

[thehate448]

shit... i left my metal pole at home...

[UnIkKaTiL1988]

idiot

[rocklistener256]

hmmmmm... bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!­!!!!!!!!!!!! woop!!!

[Leopoldo888]

And, where´s Frankenstein?

[halo123456]

LMAO nice

[BananaBoxMonkey]

Any one want to stand by it! :)

[Punk110010]

severo arco

[Meshehetube]

electrical discharge roflmao

[Mick10010]

Wonder how fast that could cook a steak...

[flinxsl]

well heat comes from I^2*R losses, so lets say you have a 100kOhm steak, if you have 500kV, then you have 5.0A, or 2500kW, so your steak will be cooked within a couple of sec ;)

[gotyx1]

up your too buddy

[Fentanyl3]

@Mick10010 about 25 microseconds

[lildragon5555]

@Mick10010 you wouldn't have a steak

[dagger86]

@Mick10010 That would vapourise your steak.

[thooko]

@Mick10010

Instantly.

[macfuehrbush]

@Mick10010 what steak, you mean the black chard rock 

[xXxmidgexXx]

Pause at 0.06 sec:It looks like a devil.XDDD

[sammyboi1453]

omg your right o.o its like the frame before 00:06

[immcguyver07]

gimme a break theres no pictur of a man with horns

[xXxmidgexXx]

sorry at 6:00 seconds

[Pluchi123]

AWESOME!

[mallamoozoo]

would that hurt much to touch it?

[sammyboi1453]

Well due to the fact that a static shock is 1000 to 10,000 Volts, you could probably work out how painful 500,000 Volts would be. Not that you'd be alive long enough to feel much of that pain :P

[MahatmaGandii]

Its not the volts that kill, i thought it was the amps? :S

[sammyboi1453]

ya, i meant the volts would hurt alot but the amps would kill you before you felt it lol

[gotyx1]

you cant feel volts, volt is how much electrones you can transfer (if my english is correct)

[WaldoJeffers10]

If your generator can't supply the amps, you can't get the power.(VxA) If you're using high frequencies, the discharge would go to the outside of the skin (Harmlessly). If it's 60 Hz or DC(0Hz)you're fried. Try cooking a hotdog with 120 VAC.

[gotyx1]

you mean i should stick a hotdog into a wall socket?

[form109]

no,it Tickles....what do you Think??...just look at that Arc!!...dangerously high Current!.....of course its going to Hurt!

[jtjjbannie]

yea!BUDDY!

[ArmyThug519]

how is this possible?, electricty is supposed to find its fastest way to ground, why would the electricity ignore the neutal ground and go up??

[dustziggy]

Actually it finds the easiest path which in this case is the line which it just disconected from. Heat from the arc causes the surrounding air to rise pulling the arc with it.

[0273482300]

if you through a frosen turky at that ark makes you wonder if it came out cooked on the other side

[fubang500]

awsome vid kinda scary now that iv been playing under those things for years

[staticdynamite]

Normally, the breakers would be opened first before the disconnects resulting in little arcing. Here, only 1 of the 3 phases Arcs. I bet the breaker for that phase malfunctioned and they had to open the disconnect under load for that reason.

[edgarlac]

muito bom video

[pyhroman]

also this was not a short, just a means of disconnect to presumably do maintenance. a breaker would be used for a short. opening a line while a short occurs would cause a flash far too intense for me to conceive

[pyhroman]

the reason it rises like that is because its burning ozone to stay connected. so as ozone is burnt it moves to up, like fire to stay connected until it either runs out of ozone or over stretches itself. Normally they use breakers or shut offs to do this, as they disconnect very fast to reduce arcing, but this does happen sometimes, there are poles just above the wires to cant see that the arc jumps to to reduce damage done to the wires. Ps don't try this at home, you will fail and probably die

[Ck87JF]

I agree with one person who said it looks like it moves similar to fire. Why does the arc climb, instead of remain between the two poles?

[doug65536]

The arc climbs because it is heating the air. The heat reduces the density of the air, and it rises. The arc ionizes the air, and electricity flows through ionized air easily, therefore the arc follows the rising ionized air.

[Ck87JF]

That makes sense. Now what about the properties of fire? Fire heats the air, and I suppose fire "likes" being hot, so maybe it follows the hot air up, trying to stay with the hot, creating that pretty pattern that fire has. It seems the electric arc is doing the same thing (slightly different, following ionized air, instead of just hot air), which makes it look like it's moving in a similar maner to fire.

Does that sound good?

[doug65536]

My understanding of fire is that the electrons are excited by the heat to a higher energy shell from the nucleus. When the atom cools off, the electron drops back to it's natural shell, and an electromagnetic pulse is released by the electron, creating a photon. I'd say the pattern of fire is caused by the same heated/rising effect, and the exchange of heat by colliding air atoms, making the edges of the fire have the pattern, and making the center glow brightly.

[doug65536]

The visibility of arcs and fire are caused by light created by electrons which may also account for some of the similarities.

[Keruaran]

You forgot to mention that it looks cool. ;)

[marcoantonio078]

Ck87JF what you have just said is a load of jibberish quite simply. P.S. does that sound good.(desparately seeking approval)

[Ck87JF]

Didn't your mother ever tell you, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all? Sorry I wasn't clear in what I was saying, but at least I was trying to have an intelligent conversation about the subject at hand.

The reason I asked that last question, about sounding good, is because I wasn't sure I had said it clearly, which is obvious since you think it's gibberish.

[vblogrsRLzrs]

The "Fire" happens very close to whats being burned, for example within the wood itself. Thats where the oxidation reaction is taking place. What you "see" are just the superheated gasses and carbon particles (smoke) incandescing as they escape upwards.

[4u2desire069]

no it wasnt suppose to do that, there was a short circuit. thats why the swith opened to stop it but it was to late. and its def not fake.

[DreKozar]

Was it supposed to do that?

[spiritbreakerz]

I might be able to Jack Off with tHAT!!!

[SWmodel29]

well put you sausage in that and we will see what happens

p.s record it when you try and put it on youtube then we can discuss the outcome of that experiment ;)

[wucky2]

that looks cool

[STALKERX9]

WOW that looked unreal.

[SWmodel29]

It was a blow-out from the powerstation.

now the area is covert with electro anomalies.

So never go there without your trusty bolt. ;)

[shadarlogoth08]

LOL, nice stalker reference.

[arkor7]

very nice

[RyuDarragh]

There is a web site called "nttworldwide" dot com which has a full explanation along with the video. Now, if I can figure out how to build one for myself :P

[RyuDarragh]

Capacitors store energy as electrical potential between the plates. This is the same effect as the lines length over the ground forms a capacitor. An inductor stores energy as a magnetic foeld. This is the same effect as the length of line, again. The line has more capacitance than inductance over it's length becuase charge accumulates whereas the magnetic field is stretched out. Think resonance here. They will insert inductors and capacitors as needed in the circuit to keep voltage stable.

[je5t3r7]

for once someone with a working brain makes a logical comments, i had to do a report on electricity and lightning and you did your homework sir, kudos!!!

[TheCottonTop]

Its never to late to suck'em

[dellman909]

dude that was kool

[LilHewie28]

im confused on why those even do that

someone tell me thanksss

=]

[RyuDarragh]

500KV on one phase, 384KV line to line.. difference between lines versus line to earth. The arc had about 500KVA in it at a few million volts before they cut it off. That box on the right behind the truck was a line balancer (inductor) that keeps the line volyage from getting too high from capacitive effects of the line over the distance from Lugo. Real question I have is,.. where can *I* get one :D

[kinko37321]

I think you have these mixed up. Capicator will stabilize line voltage and inductor will cause resistance to change in current. The inductive effect of the line/load causes the spike in voltage. They open the breaker and then blow compressed air to push the arc outward until the resistance becomes too high and the arc extinguishes. This is the switch, there is no other way to "cut it off" other than what they are doing here. It is how they take the lines out of service.

[Fedasaine]

This is actually an unsafe practice. They normally break lines in oil or sf6 breakers and then open these air connects for maintenance. They must have just been doing this for fun or someone just got fired.

[darkpersonhi]

youd have fried caT LOL

[dredsirius]

MMMM PLASMAAAA LOVE PLASMAAAA!!!

[RBChoman]

It moves like fire

[incubrian]

no it moves like electricity

[ivionday]

beautiful

[mumpoopoo]

wot would happen if i put a screwdriver in mu plugsocket then connect to a copper pipe wif a metal squre and a cat standinf in it

[timmy9632]

MCB will trip in the consumer unit for the socket circuit so it won't do much damage.

That is if the circuit to phase and earth is made though.

[jizzmonger]

And to be more specific, I am calling this a bank of Thyristors but they are actually called Thyristor-Controlled Inductors.

[wow1022]

they opened the switch under load

[brad4162]

piss

[superwoofer2007]

EVIL I TELL YOU... EEEEVIL!!! that is witchcraft!

[bigbarge1]

ITS HIGH VOLTAGE LOW AMPS 500,000 VOLT AT 100AMPS BUT when you step it down too 120/240 you

get 200 amps!! 4000 amps that would be a big

wire

[madzyzome]

Look at Ohms law. Since power utilities only regulate voltage the only variables are current and resistance. Current (Amps) inversely proportional to resistance (ohms). So the currant is entirely dependent on the resistance across the wires (load). If and only if you kept the same load (500KV at 100A) at 120 volts the current draw would be 416,666.66 Amps and at 240 volts it would be 208,333.33 Amps. Math is great!

[johnbeyer]

that was awesome

[Dontchokeonfear]

trippy.

[hvhaxor]

w8 until u se a 1mv tesla coil

[Dontchokeonfear]

how long must i wait?

[hvhaxor]

took me 15 years.....

[ILUV74]

Im sure thats what appears when isay to my wife, that im going to the pub again. cool though .