I know something about electrcity Im currently building a city model with carboard and other materials and glue! I made my first model using chopsticks long ones with wires on it to simulate powerlines! I ran 12v through it but with no insulation I also melted and bended some plastic to make mini insulators like the one in real life! Then I connected a 12v fan powered by a battery and it worked and yes I sperated the wires as best as I could To not short the neutral and the hot wires! And when I applied power it actually worked! I plan on expanding it but I might have to cover it in polyurethane for better insulation but since real life powrerlines don’t any because of the high amperage and voltage I don’t think so! Also for streetlights I decided to pick those diode lights 10 pcs the mini ones and im currently building 1 one a few minutes ago I plan adding some on the power lines of course lower! But it’s a bit harder because I could have done that way early im the first start! 😂 anyways that’s all!
+PUG WARRIOR Yeah I bet a lot of people with a typical american accent sit around in cars in russia waiting for shit like that to happen. This guy sounds american AF.
Human curiosity is the problem, not the dangerous item. This universe is almost limitless in its danger. But if you touch the dangerous, that's on you.
I'm at a loss and confused as to why they would put those wires to where they could do that the hell is wrong with this country nevermind that's a redundant question
@@ironnads7975 nah you're pathetic just because you know about physics and electricity doesn't mean you can shot on people who don't. Or maybe Mike is a genius and doesn't know why the power lines are like that.
This can and does happen anywhere. Arc flashes are nearly unavoidable. I immagin the engineers that design this stuff plan heavily to avoid this, but sometimes conditions are worse then planned for.
I feel like the lines should be crossed through a pole, it'd completely prevent (to a logical extent, anyways) this from happening. They knew wind was a thing, they knew phases arced like this, wtf is the excuse? And so many wires... so, so many wires
I like how when you say "I'm getting the best video guys" the electric makes an X formation then stops. It was like "best video... nah. Time for an eXIt"
You can't not allow electricity to arch, or not allow wind to blow the lines around. You can have regulations on distance between lines; though this scenario is still very regulatory...
And that's literally what power companies do with automated protection devices called reclosers. They trip during a fault and the immediately re-energize the line in an attempt to clear the fault. Some faults will quickly burn off the line or otherwise clear after a few seconds. This is whats happening when the power flickers of for a second and then comes back.
There are many reasons for overhead wires as opposed to underground wires. #1 is obviously cost, as trenching or drilling to bury wires is much more expensive than hanging then on poles or from transmission towers. The difference between the US and European countries, where lines are typically buried, is one of population density. It takes many more miles of line to serve the same number of people in the US than it does in most of Europe. The cost to underground can easily be triple that of overhead and much more in some instances. That makes undergrounding US lines infeasible. (As an example, in the 90's and 00's San Francisco spent ten years moving just 46 miles of line underground, at a cost of nearly $4 million/mile. California has hundreds of thousands of miles of line.) #2 is serviceability. Even underground wires are still vulnerable to flooding and lightning strikes. The area above them must still be kept open for maintenance, but also to prevent tree roots from damaging them. Repairing underground wires is much more time consuming and expensive because you have to dig them up. Requiring digging for routine maintenance and checks means that maintaining those underground installations is also more costly. #3 is that even underground cables present safety risks. Just as cranes or people can hit overhead lines, excavators and people digging can hit buried cables. Even marked utilities are not always correctly marked, which is a major reason gas lines are frequently struck, so having the lines marked is still no guarantee of safety. For their dramatically higher cost, underground lines are only moderately safer. #4 is that the dissipation of heat generated by current in the wire is much easier in the open air than underground. That heat increases wire resistance, which means more energy must be used to "push" electricity through the line and stains the entire grid. This is one of the drivers of cost in underground lines, as most transmission lines are in fluid (oil) or special gas filled pipes or encased in polyethylene (made from petroleum) or some other flexible grounding material that allows for heat dissipation. While underground lines have many benefits, like all things they are a tradeoff and have their own drawbacks. They are VERY expensive, and the benefits they provide are deemed not worth the added cost in many instances.
@@DennisWardsTrakShak Again, it's a question of population density and cost. Not all parts of the world are the same, so what works and is cost effective in one place may not work or be cost effective somewhere else. There's no technical reason why lines couldn't be buried in the US (in some places they are), but the cost of those lines per person they serve makes the idea cost prohibitive across much of the country. The benefits simply don't outweigh the cost here like they do in other locations.
this is my first time seeing this so when this happened one night as we were driving me and my friends thought we saw a ufo and told everyone for years lmfao
The real question is who the hell thought that design was remotely safe or smart..i just can not fathom the lack of intelligence it takes to achieve that on top of which how they got that far in the system in the first place.
@@BlackLung87 do you? I put my money on the answer is no. Since not take your own advice...second if you goin to be an ass again take your own advice....otherwise take your own advice. Being a ass is not needed....but i digress. You brought nothin of value to this to clarify why one would have it set up in such a way. So take your unvalued comment and self and move around
I agree. Those lines seem quite close to each other. I don't know why there are so many either! I mean, really! (The wind probably causes the lines to "gallop", and then when it started shorting out and arcing, the short-circuit current created a magnetic field which caused the lines to gallop even more.)
+Sergio Ortiz I'm not meaning to SPARK a challenge but we got to show who is in CHARGE by conFUSEing these people by AMPLIFYing these jokes. im done : )
I was sitting on top of a large pole barn that I was framing for my dad.... all the sudden I felt the roof trusses shift a little ..... then I happen to see the power lines whip ( like a long straight rope) like waves were going down them.... 5 or 6 feet up and down.... I yelled at my dad to look... He said he felt nothing... We figured it was a small earth quake... Power lines as far as I could see were waving up n down... ( 1/2 mile in each direction).... 30 years ago .. I’ll never forget it...
@@pxl_shoot3r602 but the US literally made the concept of third world countries. So they could be anything. But yes, ypu have a point, America IS the most obese, racist and arrogant country overall. Even democrats all over the world just look at the brainwashed population. This doesnt mean the US is a third world country, they're very successful economically but half of the population still live in the past, where Russia and China where poor and irrelevant, whilst the other half eats ass on social media.
It’s a good thing we have all these ABOVE GROUND WIRES even tho it’s a PROVEN FACT it’s not necessary, not safe, not efficient, and opens our grid up to FAR MORE vulnerability. Enjoy these videos while they even exist, soon there won’t be any power running thru those wires at all!
