Power Plant Substation Explodes

[nascar2w]

Well there's your problem!

[KINGJADEX]

That's weird, it was a really slow explosion.

[lexichronicle2]

@Photonicinduction Ba-boom! :D

[mupps420]

@Photonicinduction wouldnt surprise me in the slightest mate!!!

[stupidkid6581]

SIMPSON!!!!!!!!

[rhinomantis88]

Justin Bieber's home...

[jonny2k100]

Uh, I think I have a problem with my electric supply. Oh yes what is the nature of your problem" Well there has been a massive explosion from a Power Plant substaion and there is flames and everything. Okay Sir, We'll send someone out to take a look. GOOD. Would you class it as a emergency sir? Yes, Yes I would, now hurry up. Okay, Okay, calm down. Would you be able to accept a callout through the day? Yes of course. Will you be in between November and next April?"Hang On I'' check my diary

[120mk078]

I would have loved to have filmed this, the BOOM was awesome!

[MidnightSkyline]

"Uncontrollable Welding Torch From Hell" Epic!

[260830107]

prabably the insulating oil that caught on fire and exploded

[pattas2005]

For the first 10 seconds I thought it was a Terminator arriving from the future!

[Atsaki13]

@Photonicinduction Bloody hope not hah.

[blade0xb]

i dare you to lick it

[hoosierhiver]

were any supervillians created?

[theavailablenamessuk]

I been looking for this video for a while.

[llamalover02]

8D !!!!

[DjSprinks890]

The explosion is a fuse blowing which is packed with mild explosives to blow quicker,the fault is why it or any of the the smaller saftey devices didn't go first.

[seansy59]

Power outage in 3-2-1-BOOM! Hey! The lights went out..

[MrAceves007]

cry bitch

[clawm123]

\m/



[zackthegoth]

nice

[bongabinga]

no more power

[6inbox]

wow

!

[Realsoccernews]

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT WILDFIRES

[PhuckHue2]

what a bunch of lazy dummies. they have thorough maintenance procedures to prevent this. I guess those rednecks were too busy getting drunk and fucking alligators

[thedeadmunch700]

0:14 "Okay guys... the wires aren't cooling down... pour some gas on that." 0:16 "Was that a spark?" "Nah." 0:18 *Death*

[thedeadmunch700]

I wonder who the dumbass was who tried to cool down overheating wires by putting them in water.

[Afallingpian0]

@thedeadmunch700

not water or flammable gas, buildings fire suppression system.

[CutaiaIsauraaa582]

so i can't wait any longer! Rescue meh from my boredom

[helicoptered]

@Techrave1 Electical Death.. Практические электрические смерти!

[sirhc141]

Wow did you see the cooling oil go for the gran finale, thats some dangerous shit

[Softwaremaker155]

Two words;

EPIC

FAIL

[JCrashB]

Chuck Norris fried some popcorns. One popped.

[athletichunta]

no more electricites ):

[ShadowFootman]

well, i just jizzed in my pants...

[lollipop1316]

OMG

[Forssa1]

"... it's my first day."

[wrtlpfmpf]

I'm sorry, but the capacitors are not there to regulate the power, but to reduce the reactive power. Essentially they are there to get the voltage and current in phase again since some sinks (like motors) tend to have a phase difference between voltage and the current they draw from the net.

[AdmiralNitpick]

@wrtlpfmpf The description would be correct if the power grid was direct current. But the power grid is alternating current, so the description is wrong, and you are correct. The capacitor banks are there to correct power factor problems caused by inductive loads.

[djuggler]

Who put the spoon in the microwave?

[techDASHtutDOTcom]

If Edison could have come to the future to capture that video, we all might be on DC. :) Westinghouse would have been doomed.

[WereWolfDan1991]

Now THAT's what I call a BLEVE.

[WereWolfDan1991]

Now THAT's what I call a BLEVE.

[WereWolfDan1991]

Angry buzzing and then...POW!!!

[poisonpop666]

chuck norris would make popcorn over that fire 0:17

[freddo27]

Had a similar event close by, a few years ago, but the transformer never went off quite as well as that one did!! More of a splutter and a buzz.

Spectacular. And expensive.

[hlaltimus]

That's one way of opening the circuit.

[EvilRabbiMAn]

now thats what i call an electrical fire!

[biowepcosmic]

YAAAAAAA LET BLOW SOME SH1T! UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[666HereticMaggot]

Wow, based off your description, it takes A LOT for that to happen. Thank you for taking so much time to explain in such detail

[partyguy9]

tht sucks, no AC in miami daaamn

[TylertheGeek28]

wow..... a sub station blew up and set on fire a few hours ago near a city where i live, one of the pics taken was just a huge black puff of smoke. cool to see what it actually might have looked like

[Rangeldangeldodo]

And Boom goes the dynamite

[richcampoverde]

lmao that was the mother of all bangs just a shame the disription looked like someone had pulled it off the internet

[BigSteve02]

comment to Lexichronicle2, a sensible British person (myself included) would say: not bloody likely. i wish you good luck finding any volunteers to go in there.

[BigSteve02]

comment to Forssa1, Homer Simpson would shout : DOH, STUPID, CRAPPY, USELESS TRANSFORMER. then he would say to Mr Burns: it is my first day.

[eeveelutiondude31]

wow... It go boom :p

[lexichronicle2]

any volunteers to go in with the extinguisher? :P

[RaceBandit]

I think whoever recorded that must've had lots of guts.  Good job.

[Jebrone]

@RaceBandit it was a stationary camera set up by Florida Power & Light

[RaceBandit]

Oh.

Well, I'm guessing the substation was a bit out of reach for the trees, seeing as they didn't catch fire.

[paulabo123]

when the coolers of the substation broke the same happend as if u put water into burning oil.

[ccoraxfan]

The video description is long and, unfortunately, highly inaccurate. Though it does sound sophisticated to the uninitiated! The description was written by someone who knows very little about power transmission and distribution systems.

[eestinuker]

fake

[lonewolfintj]

Question: why is the guy at the end saying "Rosie O'Donnell!!! Rosie O'Donnell!!!" Here, and in the other copy of this vid at watch?v=fzbQjd_Oo4Q

[GsyMoo]

I used to work at the local power station (electrician) and it always amazed me how often the ageing plant would blow up. I still say "It's not a proper Friday until you've blown something up!" This video is a fine example of it's kind.

[nraised]

that was cool

[gexkid]

cool

[lardlad62]

whoooooooooooooa!

[lonewolfintj]

Interesting description, but contains a lot of misleading information. For example, your definition of "capacitor" is poor. (A "capacitor" is a device which will store electric charge Q when subjected to voltage V. The "capacitance" C is given by C=Q/V.) Also, capacitors in substations aren't used as "reservoirs"; they're used to realign the voltage-to-current phase angle back to 0. (The V-I phase angle gets messed-up due to inductive loads from electric motors and transmission lines.)

[Leylandbasher]

flippin hell!!

[czk310]

Why does it humm like that

[lonewolfintj]

AC electric arcs produce sound at the frequency of the voltage. In the case of AC power-line arcs, the frequency is 60Hz (or 50Hz in Europe), so the arc hums at that frequency, plus a few higher harmonics. Since the power of a substation arc fault is very high (nearly unlimited power being fed into near-zero resistance), the arc is very loud. During wind-storms and earthquakes, I can hear power-line arcs from miles away. A distinctive, frightening sound.

[poisonpop666]

power plant fail

[101xfmrogers]

that was a loud fuse!

[lonewolfintj]

I think the BANG at 0:17.8 was a primary-side "expulsion fuse". From wikipedia: "High voltage expulsion fuses surround the fusible link with gas-evolving substances, such as boric acid. When the fuse blows, heat from the arc causes the boric acid to evolve large volumes of gases. The associated high pressure (often greater than 100 atmospheres) and cooling gases rapidly quench the resulting arc. The hot gases are then explosively expelled out of the end(s) of the fuse."

[101xfmrogers]

100 atmospheres, that's a lot of pressure!

[dutycalls01]

The explosion could have come later.The only reason it blew up so fast was that the firemen actually tried to use water to put out that fire.If u looked carefully u could actually see the water hitting o the fire then BOOOMMM! Using water to put out an electrical fire erm...how wise...

[timsmith85]

@dutycalls01 that wasn't water, that was mineral oil vapor. Read the description. You can see it erupting out of the transformer.

[Helgerty]

That wasnt water, it was hot oil under pressure. Look again.....

[131DIGITALPH33RFAN]

yeah thats stupidity they should have used other non electricity conducting materials like the sand for an instance

[timsmith85]

They use oil because it's a coolant. Sand is an insulator, the opposite of a coolant.

[131DIGITALPH33RFAN]

well oil makes the fire wild

[Jet3800]

i think that might not be water but cooling oil overheating and spraying out from its containers. It exploded because the oil is very flammable.

[DjSprinks890]

Haha they wouldnt use water :/ They would use C02!! And even that would be non effective against that U try and put that out with water and see what happens! :O

[clevlandsteamer69]

That was nuts

[27722700]

lmao, that was very clever, I wish I could rate comments, cause you get 5 stars.....I'll give you a thumbs up though!

[3of11]

Funny how people scream at the fuse breaking, when in fact thats the only GOOD thing that happened there!

[lonewolfintj]

"3of11", the fuse was probably on the primary side of this step-down xfmr. It likely blew when the xfmr exploded, because the explosion likely shorted phase-to-phase or phase-to-gnd on the primary side, causing a MUCH higher fault current than the secondary-side arc did. So on the up side, the fuse did save upstream equipment. But on the down side, this substation was a total loss.

[sarshalom2006]

nuuuuuuuuuuu

[N37BU6]

This video is deeply satisfying...

[emersondavis]

@N37BU6

 I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!!!

[JAROSLAVAGINA]

lol sounded like a big welder!

[NathanH5]

Note that there are two explosions...the first is when the windings inside the transformer short out at last, blowing the top of the tank (facing the cameraman) open, this causes the expulsion fuse on the high voltage input side to open, causing the big bang and cutting power to the exploded transformer. This video is incredible. I wonder how long the arcing fault was going on when the video began.

[simon726]

THAR SHE BLOWS!!!

[Vex1s]

Ha-chooo!

[steryle1]

sweet

[klawyaillahee]

Excellent video and THANK YOU for the detailed explanation of what happened and what we were seeing. :)

[wd1000]

that wuz nice

[chaotic1223]

0:29

was that a shock wave?

[MiraculousJeff]

the shadow of the smoke actually

[chaotic1223]

well it looks too fast but i will believe you :)

[steve0619]

lol! no, idiot...

[chaotic1223]

excuse me?

[jazza32]

nah it would of been quicker than that prob the air

[Steven197981]

Hey I dont if anyone else notices but at 0:26 to 0:27 when the guy is shouting, It sounds like he is saying Rosie O Donnel twice very clearly. Doesnt it??

[Steven197981]

if you play it at 0:25 you'll hear they guy saying it very clearly.

[aldo1021]

Yup WOWw!!!1

[uplfosi]

Wehn I was a L.A. Power green beray, I parashooted right in the middle of one of these horrible exploshuns. It was horrible.

[riririu]

Spelling must not be a prerequisite for the L.A. power company.

[nordpark]

I wonder how it smells?^^

[Argonaut1337]

that can't be good for the environment....

[uplfosi]

What was tihs all about? The explanashun was too long and I fell asleep.

[timsmith85]

Stuff went "boom" and a girl screamed.

[nordpark]

xDD

[TomH127]

An event like this will cause a power outage. Explanation is about how our electric grid can fail as we take it for granted!

[WhelenVTXR2]

Lemme Say This...

SHIT!!!

[PathanLion]

Oh yea you can also tell Lew that all of his dedicated and happy employees hope he is enjoying the 11 million dollar bonus tha he just got..... Im sure you must feel the same !

[PathanLion]

LOL ...GOBO760 must work for FP and L...hey GOBO tell Lew Hey the 3rd that FPL's system sucks. undermaintained, mismach crap, bad relay schemes and old shit that is run by cash thirsty capitalists who have Gov.charlie crist, the state of florida red neck republicans and sadly the union in their pocket. They always wait for a hurricane to blow through so they can get federal tax payer dollars to fix their delapidated shit...Been there done that... funny ...

[evawyrwal7]

that really hurts your eyes, cool explosion though

[bubbleglass]

interesting explanation; easy to understand in layman's terms. thanks for the education. though I wonder how much I'll remember without referring back.

[tubeyou443]

I told you European appliances wouldn't work...

[zimtower]

LOL what a shitty fuse.

[itsCATURAY]

which house was it filmed from? could you send me an e-mail with a pic of the map and a circle of some kind around the house you think or know it was filmed from?

[shadowsilver83]

head nods

this is a very dangerouse but epic vid

[itsCATURAY]

lemme gues the main fuse blew because of the melting causing all the circuits to bridge? and why the people scream? power went out, explosion, or both?

[aurora990]

people started to scream when the power substation exploded.

[itsCATURAY]

eeeekads!!

[Forssa1]

Mr. Burns: SIMPSON!!!

[nekrofere]

lmfao

[PzoiNick]

lol :p

[DirectOverdrive]

WOW wouldnt wanna piss on that fire 8P

[bestcleaningwasher]

Oh My. What horrible

[3rdbasescoop]

OMG!!!!!

[Peter4101]

Some1 better get the foam!!

[denisxx61]

The most interesting part is your very informative description of the nature of the problem. Many thanks indeed for taking the time to enter all that data. I learned a great deal.

[07stothersc]

0:18 EPICCCCC

[RadaSs90]

HOLY CRAP!!!!

[pal05pmajor3]

better that than a huge power surge

[rockerscansk8]

..... WATER IS FLAMABLE !!!!

[Shalinar45]

Its oil.....read the information. OIL is flammable, not water.

[NoPlaceForLoafers]

Jesus Christ!

Are you kidding?

[semerochnik]

жутковато

[NoPlaceForLoafers]

WTF???

[pisiensveejaa]

dont use water!!!!! :)

crazy video

[SlaveZero1234]

hope nobody got hurt

[Jesssser]

Flammable coolant....nice.

[llamalover02]

8D 8D 8D

[smithbrain]

What type of circuit breakers were they using on the capacitor bank units? Oil, Sf6, vacuum? Also what was the max current for the bank?

[transientvoltage]

Got that right rodmofo, PCB is nasty stuff, every time PCB filled equipment blew Hazmat had to come out.

The disposal of PCB is complicated, lots of paperwork and documentation involved and it's expensive.

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

that was fantastic!!!!!!!!!

[MisterHolaMan]

That was insane...

[StarryKid06]

The sad part of this story is some kid was wanking it behind the station and the explosion blew his dick off.

[petplayfreak]

Oh god, please tell me you made that up...

[ethanswish123]

LOL!!!

[wasitrealy]

wow giant explosion 5/5 ur lucky with that video it looks rare

[overdosesexxx]

nice video. awsome

[pyhap2ev]

i peed in there :D

[wallpaperkilla]

hope no one got hurt, but that was FUCKING AWESOME!!!

[alex054739]

wow that super denguers :/

[killman369547]

the wife plugged in the toaster again lol

[daltontouch]

awesome, dude

[megaman5125]

naped

[smithbroz08]

Awesome video, thorough description, added to favorites. Good thing that no one was injured or killed.

6/5

[pierrelebatteur]

The BOOM! final at the end, what is it exploding?

[Alvinwhatup2]

the overload fuse finally blew, the whole reason it was arcing was because of capacitor failure, but the fuse held out too long after it failed. resulting in arcing. which heated the oil inside the transformer making it burst into flames.

[pierrelebatteur]

so if I understand this is the fuse that exploded because it was overloaded due to arcing

[Alvinwhatup2]

yes, but the reson it blew was because the capacitor (A device that "regulates and balances energy flow" failed, allowing unbalanced high power electricity to the wrong spots.

[pierrelebatteur]

it is huge this fuse! is not like the fuse on home or put them in a circuit breaker

[normdoty]

that kind of very high voltage fuse actually has a small explosive charge in it.

its to make sure the fuse conductor is completely destroyed and the atmosphere inside the fuse will not conduct current or catch fire because of the gases left behind inside the fuse after the explosive goes off.

[slyscafe]

I blame those damned Lithium-Phosphate batteries.

[transientvoltage]

Restrike, that's what the arc fault in the breaker switch is called. Same thing happened at substation in Montana, blew a 115Kv transformer.

[edjkuihe5uir]

did you hear a voice near the end? If so I think it was some kind of automatic emergency system!

[kdeyoness]

at 0:15 you can see some gas that exit...

is it gas??

It's mineral oil vapour. Check the description, it explains it in detail