500kv-line opened under load

[ed2135az]

Very cool "Jacobs Ladder" !!!

[mjpeeved]

Plasmaaaaaaaaaa...

[IcyPeanuts]

The pikachu joke's getting old guys...

[raynielbb]

Don't fuck with a dark side!

[ICameAsHuman]

Terminator is back.

[thedannyyy8]

Omg he's even stronger dan pickacu :o now we have to worry :'s

[Joshmufc09]

it was tremy coming back in time.. again....

[JamesMajdali]

that is gorgeous.

[Joshstarrr]

what a waste of energy

[Rayfstralia]

Anakin! how many times have I told you not to fly through power couplings!

[LuccasBode]

eletric fire

[HAYDENProductionsInc]

haarp?

[beebeeking15]

KAMEEEHAAMEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!­!!!!!!

[andris911]

o.O

[Danielinhoni]

OMH THE POWER OF TEEESLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!­!

[jeuxpclol101]

omg it created a bridge!!! how much power!

[avafan48]

i dare you to walk through that.....

[Hellislose]

hear the guy screaming at the end. whooooooooooooo

[testerpot]

damn you should have labelled this a HAARP mind control device and got over 10000000 hits ;>)

[mrthebillman]

SCIENCE!

[fastbreakr]

haha i think i saw the delorian pop out of there

[BassScavenger]

fake

[yesplease45]

The bzzzzzzzz is AMAZING 0_0 i.....want...to....touch it =D

[thelittlestinfidel]

They should have cranked up the power to see how high they could get it to go. Probably not the smartest idea ever, but DEFINITLY a cool one.

[adalstan]

throw a whole chicken into that bitch and we got our selves some KFC

[outseeker]

Thanks to the camera man! :D

[jon930490]

bad ass.

[TheNerdyHillbilly]

biggest......arch.....EVER

[serk1sniper]

Touch it?

[animatorSimen]

look like something from star wars

[QuellDerQual]

FAKE! There is no such thing as electricity !

[ShafiqDempseyTV]

@QuellDerQual because you don't go to school

[QuellDerQual]

@ShafiqDempseyTV FAKE! There are no schools

[QuellDerQual]

@animatorSimen FAKE! There are no letters!

[animatorSimen]

@QuellDerQual Fake! Piss off with these weird comments!!

[QuellDerQual]

@animatorSimen FAKE! There are no comments

[Jackbenvthebest]

touch it...

[Bobbysclan65]

awwww

i wanted to hear tht guy go wooooooooo

[AtzengamerMemphis]

that transformators are now toasted. americans...

[TaL1cV]

very nice ._.

[take3gr]

YES IT"S REAL!!!

[k9eddt]

and with that, Michael J Fox returned to 1984.

[bardack0123]

HARP

[MrArie23]

lol this all happens because they disconnect the connectors XD the bang is from the electric charge in search of its way to the other pole... this is awesome :D

[ObedSamudio]

Time Travel :D

[albertusj]

spectacular

[euphoritch]

looks like haarp , i know ir isnr , but it looks like it . imagine you can control that power , you can win an entire war with one fuckin gun!!!!

[pjmandrik]

@euphoritch you really are dumb....... HAARP uses am radio waves.... now raw evectricity... even though electricity is used to power them

[magicstix0r]

@pjmandrik You're pretty stupid yourself. There's no such thing as "AM waves." AM is a method of encoding a signal over an EM wave...

[RainerPoppe]

"Pur Amperes..." "Powerfull,..."

Tempel of Yerushalem

[davdua1991]

i see this often in portugal, it actually happens :)

i work for EDP (portugal energy company)

[davdua1991]

i see this often in portugal, it actually happens :)

i work for EDP (portugal energy company)

[XxshadeaxX]

i heard you at the ending I WAS DIEING LAUGHING WHEN I HEARD YOU SAID THAT. you was going to what the fuck!!!!

[MrBasilGanglia]

Looked real to me.

[RastaCzimice]

I guess, that arc is caused by (already dead) line residual electronical charge. Disconecting MVA with this switch is destructive imho

[zmogus2]

moron...:D it is fake:DDD

[chrism216]

@zmogus2

hahahah

fake?

no no no

this is what powers cities kid.

in the inside of those power houses theres tubes filled with an isolating gas and the live cables in the middle, to prevent exactly this.

not even air is an isolator at 500 kv.

[TheCrisandairtwins]

No dude its real..They just were very lucky to catch that

[HomerJ666]

mmmhh ahh yummy... plasma... is it edible? xD

[dannyto12]

hahhaa guy at the end - "WHHAAATT!!"

[mikegotteri]

I love ELECTRONS!  ;-)

[phillip41231]

That was me using thunder bolt!

[OoNik0oO]

if that got any bigger it could've struck somebody

[thenenebello21]

i love the sound of electricity

[7171561200]

PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[yesimstuntdude]

That does NOT look safe.

[halfangel1526]

u cant tell me this doesnt give u goose bumps

[AmateurPROSkatersXD]

This is soo fucking cool XD

[Boardcasty]

well... To tell ya the truth :P Nothing is fake about this.

[xian20000]

eso es el aarp

[izybluffen]

Im a Sparky and that is real people.

[IDisfunctionI]

that's cool, the way it rises sort of resembles fire

[masonburton1]

@paircorne

FUCK YOU PIKACHU IS THE BOMB

[TheMaccyT]

why did they open it?

[forresthop]

@TheMaccyT i believe they opened because it was under to much load, so it doesn't divide by 0

[deanelie7775]

amm this is real

???

[firebug12690]

I'm a science geek, but with todays editing abilities, I can't tell if this is real or not. Can one of those really do that?

[cooly158]

imagine your doorknob doing that to you.

[bloodcorer]

pikaCHUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!

[paircorner]

@bloodcorer fuck pikachu

[briancollazo46]

the chuck norris prototype tazer

[Hackettman84]

@briancollazo46 nowhere near powerful enough to stop him. nowhere near lol

[TechnomancerMorhion]

I just orgasmed....

[TheBalefire]

when a circuit with an inductor in it is broken, the inductor will produce any voltage necessary to keep current flowing. The current flowing through the air causes the air to break down into component ions, (plasma) and then the super hot air rises, and the arc of electricity follows the band of plasma because it conducts electricity much easier than regular air. =)

[hootergirlsrhot]

i love the sound of electricity in the morning

[TomStenton22]

what is it ?

[madeinar2]

the electric six

[hallostinker123456]

amazing

[vixletvixen]

Just enough power to charge the transmission lines. Too high voltage kickback on one of the three phases flashed across the outside of the gas interrupter on the right, that should have kept the voltage off the contacts when they were opening. This was a test, any real load would have caused serious damage, and been very bright.

[zeekdavis21]

we have a telsa coil at our local museum that pacts 1400kv

[DreamOf944]

How many KW/H (Kilowatt Hours) could that have been?

[oliverm2]

is this HAARP?

[Heliox4PL]

nope -.-'

its just high vltage electric arc (look at Tesla Coil it has simillar effects). Sorry for bad english usage. ofc 5/5 beutiful

[antony492]

its beautiful

[doaworld]

nice ^^

[justandy333]

thats why you should never play around is substations! theyre fookin dangerous!

[williamwzl]

Such a waste of power.

[pooti67]

I think the contacts need a bigger distance or there is too much water in the air ^.^ sry for my english xD

[izybluffen]

@pooti67 It doesnt matter how far the contacts are. When you open a circuit under those conditions you will always get arks. Happens with ANY switch gear. There are other methods to extinguish or shorten the arc, like de-ion barriers and oil immersion but with sub station stuff like that, no way.

[oryxfreeride]

So was that dangerous at all, or something that was intended? Cuz it looked kind of like not what I would want to be around...

[izybluffen]

@oryxfreeride Look at how far those dudes are standing away - Its THAT dangerous.

Not something you wanna be close too, that would do a lot more than tickle, more like get vapourised.

[ixonixas]

It's realy true? Wow...

[Stephenlee5]

Awesome!

If it was fake, it would have horrible effects.

[gregjazzeil]

dang dat wus sick

[dogrichmancat]

i thought they said you can see electricty!

[Hybzy]

I'm an electrical engineering student, and am majoring in power engineering, and can say that it's real.

[DeathAngelHRA]

beautiful

[RevolverX10]

I guess those who say that is fake do not know how power distribution systems work.

[myztic123]

exactly

[Trivium2rage]

i went to the place were this happened.its in madison WI. i met one of the persons that was there too.

[DieBismarck1]

hammer der rest strom der da durchfliest verhält sich zu 95% wie feuer (erkennaber bei genauerer betrachtung)

wow the lighting is like fire !

[nfsmw249]

fake cuz that dude walking didnt even look!!!

[hagiaw0w]

its real idiot.

[iMpRiSoNeD44]

@DLPBurke u got to be the most retarted ever

[DLPBurke]

@iMpRiSoNeD44 retarted? Never heard of that before....

[Thevirus1234]

@DLPBurke

[Mpntball2012]

@DLPBurke No, this is legit. Electricity is amazing.

[monoamiga]

Obviously you don't know how does it work. That's NORMAL. Use your brain first, then make comments.

[tobias4005]

Cool ^^

[tobias4005]

You guys really made it or just use adobe after effects?

[mexicanerd]

its 100% real

[c0rn1x]

its really no fake guys...

[Killerdany]

lol die beiden typen da unten wollten grade loslaufen ^^ ( PANIK )

[peacebrother15]

stellt euch mal vor ihr bekommt einen stromschlag

von dieser leitung Krass alter! da wirst du zu einem grillhähnchen

[sidolin911]

grillhähnchen?!da bleibt von dir nicht mal ein bisschen asche übrig....

[DarkDragonSoul]

Nicht ganz. Schon bei 20 kV platzt der Körper einfach, weil das Blut enorm schnell siedet und sich ausdehnt. ;)

[bulleric]

echt hammer krass

[bulleric]

echt heftig

[SwissRaver]

booooah, arschgeil!^^

[RoyAmsterdam]

oh shit..............