500,000 volt line opened under load

[SkISl0pE]

So will that kill you?

[Kenjikentai]

what we are in comparison?

[gilgammesh1]

Somebody took this video and used it in theyre channel saying it was HAARP. Remember seeing it

[flingueur45]

the "WOW" in end XD

[MrMaxyield]

Don't you mean the circuit is being 'closed' under load? It seems the arc would be greater if the circuit is closed under load...........

[KOntra370]

i am done

[Xenoned]

THEY CROSSED THE BEAMS!

[lightscameraimages]

@Xenoned i thought crossing the  streams was ba d?

[boybucketalf]

@lightscameraimages Crossing the beams while indoors is bad - this was outside so they are totally proffessional !!!!!

[davedenisetigg]

No doubt someone will be wanking to this?

[reglus03]

what is the purpose of this?

[SeberHusky]

Where's Frankenstein?

[ReFreezed]

Amazing!! :O

[fa18chornet]

Thats all what i want for breakfast !

[justinok67]

*Electricity stops*

Worker: Look!

[stix471]

i wish i could shoot that shit outta my hands :D

[Lazurath101]

0:08 "WOO-"

[Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh]

QUICK KIDS RUN THROUGH ITS A SPRINKLER

[Hogasofa]

Is this real or is this just some computer crap that some one animated?

[stix471]

@Hogasofa its real mate, that basically what lightning is, only on a much smaller scale :)

[ghajaanan]

chuck norris called, he wanted his lava lamp back...

[xample]

Plasma bolt! Muahahaha!

[Valadar917]

And suddenly, applications for electrical engineering degrees skyrocket.

[Backtracer1]

i love the "wow" at the end ...

[LloydAurion2006]

Shaman's chain lightning.



[deividtaz]

quero ve se vc aguenta um desse

[x30secondstorm]

You can't even see the dislike bar. As it should be.

[bode120]

@x30secondstorm y the fuk wud ppl even dislike this vid? fukin cyber bullies

[BKamron]

Stop beggin people to thumb your shit up!!! You need to just comment on the video and if the comment is funny/witty/or just makes sense then you'll get thumbed up. So just stop beggin, nobody thumbs up bullshit posts!!!

[Macsrus5]

thumbs up if u think people comment about chuck norris to much

[LurchibaldBioshock]

How did I get here from a video of a girl talking about her OCD?

[TheRealCanThought]

shit.... thats how chuck norris was summoned!!

[lvachon]

So does this mean that those huge compensation coils were acting like a giant ignition coil?

[Richardtyan52]

cool



[TheUnpredictable88]

Beautiful

[mpopeube]

You might want to remove those piercing metal things on your face before getting too close.

[WeAreTheRedRoof]

00:10 WOOO! hahahahaha perfect response

[randomocity999]

i sure as hell hope that anybody who normally would be there with a catheter wasnt

[crispeyxtoast]

0:10 "FUCK!"

[lilmetisboi]

THAT WAS AWESOME!! hahahaha 

[MrNoob113]

*High* voltage :P

[mistrzu9971]

The Bicycle Men

[Undetailed1]

zzzzzzzzzz..WOAH!!!



[jsebean]

Thumbs up if you laughed like crazy when you heard the buy in the background yell, "WHOA!"

[SuperChrisgee]

lol i love the random woo at the end

[natekarr]

so cool.



[TheMccinema]

thats what zues jizzing looks like

[viperzeroone]

Always amazing to see a plazma arc on a disconnect. Excellent video!

[TheDjAdrianDj]

WoW!!!

[thatguyontheright1]

88 mph?

[nuno417]

awesome :D

[notmack]

FUCKING SCIENCE!!!

[sweetgyy]

fucking sick

[wdjclash]

who opened the line?

[ChumpusRex]

@wdjclash Remote monitoring equipment had flagged a possible fault on this isolator switch. An investigation team was sent out with a camera, and after the camera was installed, the line was taken off load (only a shunt reactor left connected drawing 100 A), and the switch opened with the camera running.

[earthlinglife]

this reminds of the terminator movie

[MyBradley87]

fuck that was a mistake opening that air brake under load probably melted the contacts to shit haha.

[amysel100]

wow imagen a bird 2 feet way from that!

[Tranqspogi]

wow!

[jwul28]

why does it kinda "grow", and tend to go up and its all curved? I mean i though electricity was always trying to reach its destination as quick as possible?

[gsmac1969]

@jwul28 because what you're seeing is not electricity, it's super-heated plasma that the electricity is being conducted through, and hot air (or in this case, hot plasma) rises.

[kdc43]

@gsmac1969 Plasma IS electriticy in air. Just like the electrons in metal are charge carriers, likewise charged hot ions are the charge carriers in the air once the air's dielectric resistance is broken down. And the ionic electric charge carriers give off light which we see. That's like saying frozen water isn't ice because it is frozen water. Frozen water IS ice.

[dim0nich]

@gsmac1969 wow thanks for explaining that! i always wondered

[hsvkidusa]

@jwul28 its also all curvy beacuse, althought no the straightest or shortest, (or most logical), its the path of least resistance

[svoi86rus]

So what we have in Russia is every day

[dougspair]

@jwul28 Hot air rises..

[BKamron]

@jwul28 Not reach as "quick" as possible but as easy as possible. The route with the least resistance is the one that is taken.

[chaebur]

@jwul28 because the wires that are above attracts an electrical charge. so it becomes curved.

[MrJervilla]

@chaebur ehhhhhhhhhhhhh wrong answer. see above

[chaebur]

@MrJervilla ehhhhh... you don't know basic laws of electrodynamics.

[MrJervilla]

@chaebur lol i do and i kno that what ur saying is plausible but not correct.

[SID480]

@jwul28 hot plasma that raises has a higher conductance than cool air

[danielgmdj]

smack that !!

[normellow]

I've seen this vid 500k times

[JediSawyer]

Only one phase seemed to be arcing and not the other two. I wonder where the current was going, to the ground? Real unsure about that part about the role of line reactors also. The power lines are inductive overall anyway, that is what the skin effect is about, current distributed to the outside reduces the inductive reactance, Usually reactors are used to combine power soureces by power companies.

[Subject29]

sounds nice

[dLimboStick]

Why did only one phase arc?

[sonconmas]

@dLimboStick Possibly because that's the mostly loaded phase

[dLimboStick]

@sonconmas: ahhh yes. Makes sense. Thanks.

[JediSawyer]

@dLimboStick I only see two pssibilities. Probably the current for that one phase went into the other phases through some other path around this disconnect, or this phase is arcing to ground somewhere somehow.

[RedflyingVee2]

I want this job

[Megatron2426]

The guy at the end sounds like Homer.

[VanguardDragon]

Seriously awesome!

[allpha100f]

What kind of SORCERY IS THIS?

[925goodfella]

haarp??

[ABRAHAM101011]

H.A.A.R.P.

[lazare73]

@ABRAHAM101011

Yes and your toaster has a microphone in it so the FBI can listen to you talk to yourself in the kitchen.

[ABRAHAM101011]

@lazare73 I DONT HAVE A toaster

[MaverickLoneshark]

"Woo!"

[aberhan8]

give me only 1000 dollars i can find over 10.000 Stupiest people in Türkey... :=)))

[rudy3389]

woow awesome

[MyloHase]

The arch was about 10 meters high

[jetpackblast580]

Can someone "dumb down" the description?

[lazare73]

@jetpackblast580

Sure. Hot! Don't touch! No! Nnnnnno!

[MathewCroft]

I jakby tak to komputera mojego podłączyć taką ilość to by niezły kop miał komputer.

[Aholeintheozone]

@simplyeffectiveOD ozone is a byproduct of ionizing air, that would release a large amount of it

[Greenjay437]

This is Chuck Norris plugging in his toaster for breakfast.

[marcusdolby1]

@Greenjay437 ....lol

[RoberTastic]

PUT ONE IN THE SKY AND FIX DA OZONE LAYER!

[tyzorg]

@RoberTastic LOL

[WingLiger496]

Transformers, more than meets the eye.

[johnny66o1]

its like MSD ignition! lmao

[savagenomore]

@johnny66o1 on steroids....lol...

[IDKJustRandomStuff]

We saw a video about this, but it was about how dangerous these places are, and to demonstrate we saw a bird fly over one a get fried

[Rhamyka]

Only one word: spectacular

[sw8741]

under load? lmao! if that was under load there would be nothing left of the switch!

[mohammeddavis]

Best discharge video.

[thewii552]

finally, somebody that titled this video properly!

[rasco420]

THROW BATTERYS AT IT!!!!!!!!!

[brunobahia19]

and there are people out that say electricty is invisible

[gsmac1969]

@brunobahia19 It is invisible. What you're seeing there is plasma, caused by the breakdown of a gas in the air, caused by the (invisible) electric current arcing through it.

[IIToxicGhostII]

@gsmac1969 kinda like with a plasma ball it uses electromagnetic waves and gas to create plasme and thats why it is visible?

[jimmyjamjar10101]

@gsmac1969 *respectful applause* for slapping that noob across the face with fact lol

[TerierBull]

@gsmac1969 I love pie!

[bansheeboy400]

@gsmac1969 now this... this is the guy 

[mathscirocks]

@brunobahia19 it is. what you saw was plasma that electricity flowed through

[pmgodfrey]

Not under load. This arc was "only" carrying the relatively low (about 100 amps) magnetizing current associated with the line reactor. The 94 mile long transmission line associated with the above circuit normally carries over 1,000 megawatts (MW) of power between Boulder City, Nevada (from the massive generators at Hoover Dam) to the Lugo substation near Los Angeles, California. A break under regular load conditions (~2,000 amps) would have created a MUCH hotter and extremely destructive arc.

[coolfsfreek]

If this clip is extremely bugged on your PC to, thump up

[Akyriuz]

ELECTABUZZ WASN`T BORN HE WAS UNLEASHED !

[skal91]

@xXxDavid95xXx unfortunately no

[nessnes64]

a few years ago some guy came to our school talking about train safety and overhead wires, he also said that the yell at the end of the video is a guy being zapped by 'invisible' electricity

Dumbass

[L2spike4life]

I bet anything noone has guts to piss on it :)

[EQSer]

жесть - Cool!!!

[The96Mth]

não é montagem não

[bartas225]

I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU CLIMB UP THERE

[dzello]

@bartas225 The electricity's gonan do it for you...

[POdXXvv]

haha its very very beautiful guy

[erwanfirealarm1998]

C'est bien!

[PJYHace]

why do they do this?

[Lapctamad]

oh so nice, where is this?

[Bojoe777NaBl]

lol @ the poor bird that flies over that while that happens :P

make sum good nuggets I bet...

[Maktin18Metaleria]

HAARP ??

[lexichronicle2]

if you watch REALLY carefully as the arc starts, you can see it hopping over what looks like a fuse or something filled with SF6. That's usually used to quench arcs - so they can't do this kind of thing. I would guess that perhaps it's contaminated with atmosphere, or something else that's conductive, so it's not getting rid of the arc as it disconnects. then it immediately moves to the breaker as soon as it opens a bit more

[KevinSaale]

@lexichronicle2

Probably a humid day or something else, just a fluke, but it didn't last long either way

[PivotsUberGod]

Nice!

[GenericChristJesus]

Wow thats cool.

[Jadama0]

Awesome!

[errylche]

dud its a trick!!

[8200cry]

OMG !!! xD

[PiccoloNamek]

WOO!

[NathaliesDream]

WOAH!!

[pantic2006]

OMG

[masterquadbiker]

omg that was cool did u see the circuit just split and turn away from each other at the start,why did it do that?

[quinmallory]

@masterquadbiker thas wat its meant to do, i dont know why it opened though

couldnt have been good the guys in the end freaked out

[rendyviII]

i give u a dollar if u climb up there.

[killboy1966]

ok dude

[JungleVipProductions]

I'll give you 1,000,000dollars if you lick it.

[MichaelJGrant]

@JungleVipProductions Didn't you read the description? That crossbar is only interrupting 33,300,000 VAR or volt-amperes reactive. That's imaginary power, dude. We all know that imaginary things can't hurt us.

[freakyperson011]

@JungleVipProductions i licked my monitor..where is my 1,000,000?

[xXxSoLiMxX]

@JungleVipProductions And after the take of one million dollars XD

[kuzonemisiz]

@JungleVipProductions do you have 1,000,000 dollars?lol

[MightyJustas]

@JungleVipProductions like you have million dollars, lol

[Snoep76239]

@JungleVipProductions Why bother, Chuck Norris already did it for free...

[djqx]

@JungleVipProductions show me the money first!!!!!

[mrlichenstein]

@JungleVipProductions Does that include getting zapped by lightning on a tongue pearcing?

[hilltopfarmsplumbing]

@JungleVipProductions 1 Million to lick what?

[kaczor123]

@rendyviII I would climb up there wearing Faraday suit.

[TheKoko200]

@rendyviII I will give him $2

[gaygaygay1234321]

omg that was COOOl

[romfordparkour]

that was awesome!

[thepkerjr]

omfg how u do that and where is that and whats actually happening?

[mikenz88]

When the circuit breaker opens there is a 500kV difference between each contact. 500kV will arc about half a meter in air, but when there is enough current the arc will stretch out because there is enough ionised gas to provide a conduction path. In this case one phase has enough current to stretch out

[Murpho06]

wow that was awsome