2:56 for those of you wondering why these guys are touching two wires and are still alive, the wires are at the same potential. This is a three-phase circuit with 2 wires per phase, and the two wires conduct the exact same current with the exact same voltage, so it's basically like touching two different parts of a very thick wire
Three phase voltages are not the same potential, they are each 60 degrees out of phase so you are wrong. If the bird is standing on two wires simultaneously which I doubt (birds are small and wires are never placed only inches apart with thousands of volts on them) then the wires are probably not hot, maybe ground wires, cable or something else. If you touch two wires of a three phase system on a power pole, you'd be going to see the angels, so would a bird!
I can still remember being really young, maybe 4 or 5, walking with my grandma and asking her, “why can the birds sit on the wire?” Her reply: “they have special feet.”
In the 50s, as a boy I knew of a farmer that was a self taught electrician. He did odd jobs for farmers in the area. He would always show up for the job with a case of beer, which he would stand on while working. In those days they were made of heavy duty cardboard and glass bottles which you would return for credit. He said it made a very good insulator and you could always drink the beer. When sizing up a large job he would say "Well, thats a lot of beer!"
He's right regarding the bottles as insulators: They're even in use today since 1745 as "Leyden Jars" which are excellent capacitors for high voltage appliances. They are extremely sturdy against high voltage, made out of cheap material and don't degrade over time unlike electrolytic capacitors which tent to bloat'n'blow. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar
How was life in the 50s without smart phones sir. Do you think humans were smarter? Better in arithmetic or had better memory than now. Do you think smart phones made us dummies comparably. What would you say changed?
@@jaydenfrancis6467 They still got electrocuted lol. While most people don't know why birds don't get shocked they also don't know how birds would get shocked.
Note: while electrons do move between the power source and your device, if you had to wait for them to travel that whole distance to get a charge, you would be waiting a very, very long time. Instead, the energy comes from the electrons already inside your device being accelerated by the electric field. The circuit simply decides the shape and size of the electric field
Also i have a question! If the birds sit on the same wire with equal potential so the charges do no flow through their body So can I also sit on the same live wire and do not get shock? Since i am sitting on same potential wire too...
@@transistorsloop a bird sitting on a power line is safe because it's only touching the wire. If it were to peck the wooden post while sitting on the wire, the bird would be treated as part of the circuit, causing the electrons in its body to move and electrocuting it. This happens because the electrons "bump" into its atoms and transfer energy to them. If an electric wire could hold a human's weight, it would still be very difficult for someone to climb onto it without touching anything else at the same time, but not impossible.
@RainFall how does feeling bad for a bird getting electrocuted relate to veganism? There is literally no mention of eating meat or birds in the video or this comment
I worked for a local power company for 30 years before I retired 3 years ago. I can say yes the bucket trucks are insulated from the bucket to about 15 foot down the neck. I can also say that you will feel a shock though minor if you touch the wire without high voltage gloves on.
@@HighStakesDanny I'm not familiar with the equipment Manila has such as fuses, fault finders which hangs on the line. The easiest way is to see the wire broken (mostly falling trees here) and laying on the ground with the fuse barrel open. (hanging down).
@@matthewkuhl79 thanks for that, figured there was some reason behind it and it was safe... just kinda bad timing with the edit for those who are not in the know lol
I remember watching a squirrel running along a wire in elementary school. It went near the pole and all the sudden a big smoky flash and he fell to the street. Knocked out power to a few blocks! We had to stay outside because the school wouldn’t let us in without working lights. We had like a 1 hour lunch break, it was sick
Wow! The best explanation of how electricity flows for anyone who didn’t work with it.The more you know about something, the less scary it is and more predictable but electricity is still one of those things you MUST respect no matter how much you think you know about it.
Electricity doesent flow in power lines its from what ive read the electromagnetic field created when the circuit is conected that allows the energy dto flow.
Wow! Can't imagine how much that hurts 🤕!!!! The most I can relate to is that I've been discharged from a hospital in 2022!!! Hope you have recovered well!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The electrons don't travel from the power plant to your house, that would be the case if it were DC (direct current) which is bad for long distances, instead it's AC (Alternating Current) meaning the electrons move back and forth in the wire (like you would use a saw)
DC is not bad for long distances (its actually better, look up high voltage DC lines), DC is only harder to transform to a higher or lower voltage, AC can be transformed using transformers which is the main reason why AC is used.
Yes, as an Electrician I have touched 120v electrical lines, but there are some tricks involved. First you can be grounded. Electricians never used aluminum ladders because aluminum conducts electricity, and would ground you. Electrician use fiberglass ladders, which don't conduct electricity. Also you don't touch the other 120v line or the neutral line.
@@antonkemperjr4128 The secret is to learn. Always work with one hand, when you think the wire might be hot. Why? because if one hand is ground and the other is touching a hot wire then the current goes thru you heart. 220v is 120v +120v, there is no neutral on 220v, but the 120v conductor must be on another phase. This gets a little complicated. You have to study about phases. At the power plant, the generator has 3 phases or 3 taps
Allow me to correct a crucial mistake you made in your video about no current flowing through birds sitting on the single power line phase: Are you aware of the step voltage? When a current flows through a loop regardless of its length a certain differential loss is always present. That's why a bird on the power line represents a high-value resistor hooked up in parallel to the line it sits on unless it lifts one leg off and detaches the connection ( open circuit ). A barely noticeable amount of current also flows through its body, but no where nearly enough to be even noticed ( if at all ). Another dangerous situation takes place upon being near a thunderstorm when a lightning bolt strikes the earth at this point of time. The current flowing through the ground spreads 360° outwards. The further more out it flows, the more the voltage drops. That drop in voltage in relation to the distance from the starting point is a dangerous matter. A person walking nearby suddenly feels that voltage difference shooting through his/her legs, causing it to instantly feel uncomfortable and eventually collapsing. That's why it is important to keep both feet tight together in order to keep that crucial voltage difference as low as possible. Wether the voltage difference varies depends upon the earth conductivity in dry or wet condition. Also the amount of minerals and salt in the soil are a contrubiting factor in regards of the dirt chemistry.
Perfect knowledge, when i apply job interview they asked me why birds don't get electricity on their body, I exactly explain that in your way. They little bit shocked but they liked my answer. I got magnetic field course. Thanks to this course :)
I remember asking my high school physics teacher the question if a person can hang from a power line and avoid electrocution as long as they remain off the ground. He said it's also dependent on the "potential difference". I don't remember the explanation as he gave it to me, but what my brain stored is basically that you can't just hover 1cm off the ground while holding onto a high voltage line and expect not to get fried. So it's not just a simple matter of "as long as I don't touch the ground I'll be fine".
Of course. Just because a material is an insulator doesn't mean electrons cant flow through it. Air itself isn't a conductor (luckily), but as you see, the worker at 2:30 is making the current flowing through air. Simply put, everything is a conductor when the voltage is high enough. Even things like glass or rubber. And thats why materials can also be "half conductors" and having a millimetre thick layer of rubber doesn't save you from getting shocked.
Without a doubt. There's way too many variables. For example, things that are in your person, type of cloth, rings, what's on the ground as well, a million things. There's no black and white type situation where if u don't do this, then x thing won't happn, etc etc
Yeah it's not as clear cut. The rule of thumb is that 30kV per cm of air is necessary to have a current flow through it. But once the air gets ionized, the channel is open and it may expand further. Also in the real world, a bird is not at the same potential when it comes into contact with the live wire. It will take a bit of transient current for the charges in the bird body to equalize with the line. Good example is with linemen working on HV transmission lines from helicopters, they first connect to the line a rod connected to the helicopter body before working on it. At these high voltages the transient current is visible on camera as the rod approaches from the line. Same with AC (even with no load) on a power line, there is always some capacitance to the wire because a real-world wire, of course having a non-zero volume, necessarily stores some charge at any point. That's why we have reactors to correct that in substations (among other sources of reactance in the system). DC power may not seem to have that issue as the potential is constant, but in the real world no regulator is perfect and a AC component is always present. We have all these nice abstractions we can understand with these fancy elegant circuits diagrams, but there is always more to it...
The clip at 1:51 is a bit misleading. The very high voltage lines shown are actually dangerous for birds to land on and you won't see birds on them (they feel pain as they get close to the wire and avoid landing on it - usually - although sometimes they do get killed). The wires with birds on them in this clip are so-called "shield wires" and they are grounded. Their purpose is to help prevent direct lightning strikes to the power lines (the lightning will usually strike the grounded, higher shield wire instead). The reason why very high voltage (>100,000 V) lines are a problem for birds is that all objects, including birds, have a property called capacitance. The capacitance is bigger when the object is bigger. Since these (and almost all) lines are alternating current, connecting a capacitive load allows a small current flow (essentially electrons flow into and back out of the object on each cycle of the AC). The higher the voltage, the more current flow. A typical residential street high voltage line (about 10,000 V) isn't high enough voltage to affect the birds but large cross-country lines (typically 300,000 V) are a problem.
I’ve always wondered about that. But even if they do end up getting electrocuted for some reason, there’d be numerous bird corpses lying around anywhere, and that’d also be a complete hassle to clean all of that up.
In short: Electricity is a term used to describe the flow of electrons through a medium with either a uniform electrical potential or a different electrical potential. When a conductor that is not attached to something else touches a medium having uniform electrical potential, the flow of electrons remains within the loop as there is no other electrical potential to travel to. But if a conductor is, say, attached to the ground, then electricity will flow from the higher potential to the lower potential through it.
Nothing would happen regarding current flow, as there has to be a complete circuit. However, if it had two legs and both feet were touching the same wire, then a current would flow through the bird but it would be so small that it wouldn’t feel it...
I was sad to hear a Canada Goose fly into a power line once. The sound was so loud, my friend, me, and other people crossing the street were very startled. It was sad to see the goose loose its struggle once he or she was on the ground. There was what looked like a burned hole in the bird's chest. That's a completely different scenario from your video but it was really startling.
Good news for birds, but some of those wires the birds were standing on weren't electrical wires. You got phone and cable, insulated wires and even cables that are helping support the pole.
@@BillC-64 there are multiple jobs where a particular group isn’t screaming for diversity. Oil rigs, mining, electricians, plumbing, hvac, road construction i can keep going.
Thank you so much for your brief explanation to this mystery... Love your unique way of explaining each point that even a child can understand... Thanks much
@shahabuzafarzubaer6919 , Different materials conduct electricity differently. There's a reason why we use metal like copper to conduct it, rather than bone. What I gather is the birds still conduct a little electricity, but not enough to hurt them. In rare instances they do get electrocuted though.
Me, as well. I'm 'shocked' to learn otherwise. You'd think that all the moisture from rain, snow, etc. would short out the wires causing huge blackouts every time there was precipitation. Still, I've seen those wires close up, and they certainly look like they're insulated with rubber.
But what if a human being touches an electric wire with one or both of his hands without actually touching the ground... I think he would still get electrocuted... This video explains what happens to birds, without explaining what happens to humans and why.
@@ContendersUTube Well, if I understand the video, which it's possible that I don't, if we could stand on the wire like birds, we wouldn't get shocked. The closest example of this is at the end of the video, where the guy is going across 2 wires on his hands and knees. He is wearing protective gear though, and that reduces his potential to get shocked.
I actually saw a pigeon got electrocuted by powerlines on a rainy day, probably the raindrops from its flapping wings caused it to connect to 2 lines at once. The sparks and noises were quite phenomenal.
@@michaelk3021 If it's done by a professional in the proper way, every 3rd plug point in your house is connected together and is earthed/grounded... The 3rd pin in any device is connected to the metal part of that device, for example for a clothing iron 3rd line is connected to the metal parts of it.so if due to malfunction or some accident the current carrying line touches the metal part current will immediately pass through the 3rd line to earth instead of passing through your body and kills you,because your body has more resistance compared to the 3rd/earth line. The reason some electronic devices like TV, mobile chargers have no 3rd plug is because they have no metal outside part that would come in contact with a fault line or a human
@@michaelk3021 yes true to some extend.. most generic models don't have metal parts but main stream manufacturers also sells monitors with Aluminium backs and metalic stands also they make all the other pc parts including psu , so they use the 3 pin plug as generic part , for plastic monitor it's not necessary but they are not gonna make a seprate part which is non necessary for just 1 kind of device same reason their laptops also have 3 pin eventhough it's not necessary, it kind of act us just an extra support for the adaptor in some cases... but some manufactures differ like apple macbook have 2 pin plug or monitor only manufactures like AOC has 2 pin plug or even usb power supply monitors etc..
Poor guy. An ibis bird i think. He was standing on the transformer and took a look at the pointy things sticking out of it and tapped one with his beak
Right ? what you're not understanding is 1. That's High Voltage 2. When they do they they isolate one side and the other side of the cable they are working on yeah.. probably not the best time to show that image but... Here are 2 HV Wires ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | the guy wants to crawl here they isolate the wires like this so that a circuit still exists and the grid doesn't go down but the power doesn't pass to their part of the wire -------------- ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- as you can see they can walk in the middle bit without getting killed while the power is redirected so the city still has power they have special instruments that isolate part of the grid so they can work on it safely obviously this is an oversimplified explanation but it conveys the point MAKE SENSE NOW why the guy was able to crawl on it LET'S ALSO NOT FORGET Power or no power HE CAN ALSO FALL TO HIS DEATH FROM THOSE THIN WIRES Remember they are thin and they do move from side to side THINK ABOUT IT And why they don't fall is because they have a harness connected to a helicopter
Im a high voltage man But you can touch my rod. If you are feeling discharged So weary and tired, Open your socket Im ready to plug, Feel my electricity Feel the heat in me.
Wtf dude...you get zapped when electricity flows through your body from the power line to something else. If you’re only touching the power line then obviously it’s not flowing to something else. but touch the line and the pole and electricity flows from the line through you to the pole and down to the ground....and that’s what zaps your ass
⚙ Want to know more about the latest tech and innovations? Don’t Miss Out!
*SUBSCRIBE & HIT THE BELL* 👉bit.ly/SubscribeNowIE
2:56 for those of you wondering why these guys are touching two wires and are still alive, the wires are at the same potential. This is a three-phase circuit with 2 wires per phase, and the two wires conduct the exact same current with the exact same voltage, so it's basically like touching two different parts of a very thick wire
Jou are taking this too seriously...!
True
Same potential
Three phase voltages are not the same potential, they are each 60 degrees out of phase so you are wrong. If the bird is standing on two wires simultaneously which I doubt (birds are small and wires are never placed only inches apart with thousands of volts on them) then the wires are probably not hot, maybe ground wires, cable or something else. If you touch two wires of a three phase system on a power pole, you'd be going to see the angels, so would a bird!
@@minerran he's not touching two different phases, he's touching two wires of the same phase, there are 6 wires total
They dont get electrocuted because they are flying robots that recharge by sitting on power lines
This is exactly where I thought the video was going in the first 30 seconds. "What magical ability do they have?"
Yes. Because they are government drones.
@@3bigbignig-abandoned sure.... 😂
@@TheExoticCerdos 😂
Lol
Respect for the bird who took part in the demonstration in the name of science. She will be retweeted.
If I recall correctly, there’s an extended version of that video, and the bird is fine after all
🤣🤣🤣
Leave the premises
F
Birb
I can still remember being really young, maybe 4 or 5, walking with my grandma and asking her, “why can the birds sit on the wire?” Her reply: “they have special feet.”
Was thinking down the same line. GOD made them UNIQUE.
😆!
i know old people relating everything with god
Translation: I don't know either, young'un!
@@bamf6603 I know, right?
Imagine being this badass sitting on powerlines and shitting on humans
I can only dream
😄😂😂
@Zephyrean is that all you got? And stop liking your own comment ffs
@@highconnery472 watch out, hes the type of guy to correct a youtube comment due to one mistake
@@highconnery472 Nice name
Because they always pay their "bill" on time ?
th-cam.com/video/O_easOFGduw/w-d-xo.html
My reaction👆
So you wanna make puns huh?
Well, toucan play that game
@@josephstalin364 so I guess its my "tern" now ?
@@barry7607 Say watt?
In the 50s, as a boy I knew of a farmer that was a self taught electrician. He did odd jobs for farmers in the area. He would always show up for the job with a case of beer, which he would stand on while working. In those days they were made of heavy duty cardboard and glass bottles which you would return for credit. He said it made a very good insulator and you could always drink the beer.
When sizing up a large job he would say "Well, thats a lot of beer!"
Legend
He's right regarding the bottles as insulators: They're even in use today since 1745 as "Leyden Jars" which are excellent capacitors for high voltage appliances. They are extremely sturdy against high voltage, made out of cheap material and don't degrade over time unlike electrolytic capacitors which tent to bloat'n'blow.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar
What a god
"" Miller Time ""
How was life in the 50s without smart phones sir. Do you think humans were smarter? Better in arithmetic or had better memory than now. Do you think smart phones made us dummies comparably. What would you say changed?
As a bird, this safety video has been very informative.
You’re not real
I'm going to go out on a limb (no pun intended) and guess that you typed your comment using the "hunt and peck" method.
@@josorr,
No, they have their hooman servants type for them.
I love how they straight up showed us a clip of a bird getting electrocuted.
He just said. pce
Was that not from the wires touching each other
@@jaydenfrancis6467 They still got electrocuted lol. While most people don't know why birds don't get shocked they also don't know how birds would get shocked.
@@RonanTetsu I didn't take that in tbh
That bird was dead quicker than instantly !
I feel so bad for laughing at that bird that just went drop
Same lol
Same, lmao.
don't worry, it survived. got stunned but flew away in less than half a minute
th-cam.com/video/p8HUj37nEJY/w-d-xo.html
@@GraveUypo thx
@@GraveUypo i thought it was lights out for sure
I'll remember this when i become a bird
Here at 15 likes. I'm the 15th
Me too i plan to become one with the doves one day and fly off into oblivion
HSHSHJKAGAHAJHAJAHSJAHSJWDKA
good luck bro, I was a bird too before I got reincarnate into this ugly human being. My life was so much fun, hope you will too :)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Note: while electrons do move between the power source and your device, if you had to wait for them to travel that whole distance to get a charge, you would be waiting a very, very long time.
Instead, the energy comes from the electrons already inside your device being accelerated by the electric field.
The circuit simply decides the shape and size of the electric field
shocking!
A/c current flows at 60 times throughout the sinewave per second....aka 60 hertz ...so that's not really a long time
@@mikemacdonald2032 that's not the rate of electrons passing through the current...
Also i have a question!
If the birds sit on the same wire with equal potential so the charges do no flow through their body
So can I also sit on the same live wire and do not get shock? Since i am sitting on same potential wire too...
@@transistorsloop a bird sitting on a power line is safe because it's only touching the wire. If it were to peck the wooden post while sitting on the wire, the bird would be treated as part of the circuit, causing the electrons in its body to move and electrocuting it.
This happens because the electrons "bump" into its atoms and transfer energy to them.
If an electric wire could hold a human's weight, it would still be very difficult for someone to climb onto it without touching anything else at the same time, but not impossible.
idk why I thought he was gonna say "To understand that, we must first become one with the birds."
I thought he was gonna say "to understand that, we need to talk about parallel universes."
Sounds like a working method
@@donutello_ **vsauce music starts**
IDK , according to FORREST GUMP..."STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES". YOU QUALIFY. "Den1se".
It would have made more sense than the error filled science talk that followed.
Thanks for this informative video.
Hello there
Greetings
Thank you for thanking them for this informative video.
@@JoblessMusic thank you for thanking them for thanking them for this informative video
@@dylanh609 thank you for thanking them for thanking them for thanking them for this informative video.
That's cool and all but is no one gonna talk about the poor bird at 1:31
I feel bad for laughing at the bird
Dont feel bad its alive
@RainFall how does feeling bad for a bird getting electrocuted relate to veganism? There is literally no mention of eating meat or birds in the video or this comment
I watched the full video, it was stunned for a bit but flew off perfectly fine
@@stighma person they replied to probably deleted their comments. They commented a month ago too. :|
I worked for a local power company for 30 years before I retired 3 years ago. I can say yes the bucket trucks are insulated from the bucket to about 15 foot down the neck. I can also say that you will feel a shock though minor if you touch the wire without high voltage gloves on.
Thanks for your selfless work when storms hit and everyone is crying.
@@terrylandess6072 Now that I have retired I've joined the cry babies...ha!
How do you know which wire to fix in Manila Philippines?
@@HighStakesDanny I'm not familiar with the equipment Manila has such as fuses, fault finders which hangs on the line. The easiest way is to see the wire broken (mostly falling trees here) and laying on the ground with the fuse barrel open. (hanging down).
I was here from the video - "Birds make transformer explode in *Houston*"
Me too ,another recommendation
Same
same
Lol ahahahahhah
It is their form of revenge for Not putting up feeders.
"They still need to make sure they only touch one wire at a time though"
Next clip:
*electricians crawling on two wires at a time*
I noticed it too
ikr
Those are parallel conductors of the same phase - no difference in potential.
@@matthewkuhl79 thanks for that, figured there was some reason behind it and it was safe... just kinda bad timing with the edit for those who are not in the know lol
@@frstnme316 i don't consider it _safe,_ but safe in the sense of getting shocked i guess. Medium voltage and above terrifies me 😬
someone argued with me that the bird had rubber boots.
Their skin is less conductive than humans.
Yes that's true.
@@MohsinExperimentsbut still get electrocuted when they touch both life and neutral together
Workers who repair power lines are literally heroes
Just like my mom and dad.😊
Yo i literally watched that bird that bites the electrical wire a minute ago
I remember watching a squirrel running along a wire in elementary school. It went near the pole and all the sudden a big smoky flash and he fell to the street. Knocked out power to a few blocks! We had to stay outside because the school wouldn’t let us in without working lights. We had like a 1 hour lunch break, it was sick
That does sound sick. And also funny.
RIP Squirrel
Your sacrifice shall be remembered
@@seriouslyman2611 squirrel lives matter
Lol
Wow! The best explanation of how electricity flows for anyone who didn’t work with it.The more you know about something, the less scary it is and more predictable but electricity is still one of those things you MUST respect no matter how much you think you know about it.
Electricity doesent flow in power lines its from what ive read the electromagnetic field created when the circuit is conected that allows the energy dto flow.
@@thebreifcaseman269 That's right, the video has it all wrong in that respect. Electrons don't flow the way described.
I suffered and survived 3 massive electrical discharges at the Washington DC VA hospital. I lost memory of the event for 4 years, lucky to be alive!!!
Wow! Can't imagine how much that hurts 🤕!!!!
The most I can relate to is that I've been discharged from a hospital in 2022!!!
Hope you have recovered well!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Interesting
Ano ginagawa mo dito
@Buraison 🔫 there you go
Noooo
@@chrisgreece732 lol what do you mean “no”
Doritos gaming
1:33 the way the bird folded 💀
Drone malfunctioning
Very informative video, surprised this doesn't have more views.
It doesn’t have more views because it takes the brain of a cow to understand the concept.
There is your answer. It's informative. That's why less views
Realy informative video, it answered allnmy questions.
Because we already know.
how do you not know this?!??
The electrons don't travel from the power plant to your house, that would be the case if it were DC (direct current) which is bad for long distances, instead it's AC (Alternating Current) meaning the electrons move back and forth in the wire (like you would use a saw)
The waves of voltage travel across the ocean of electrons in the wire just like the waves on the surface of the ocean.
So each wire has its own AC wave?
DC is not bad for long distances (its actually better, look up high voltage DC lines), DC is only harder to transform to a higher or lower voltage, AC can be transformed using transformers which is the main reason why AC is used.
1:33 from alive to dead in a second
edit: i saw the longer version of the video, it actually didn't die, it was stunned
@Onkar Jadhav i found that hilarious
there are two types of people in the world
@@richie3602 bro im not cold. i just find it funny, the way it fell down.
Poor bird.
@@haseebejaz don't worry, it probably didn't feel a thing
An information video that gets straight to the point while remaining under 10 mins. You earned a sub, sir.
Now I see why electricians who work for the city get paid as much as $100 an hour just on straight time
One day this will be in everyone's recommended and it'll get like 2+ million views over night.
Ok
Ok
Also maybe that's now?
Ok
But how's Reimu?
True
I was here.
I love videos that attract intelligent conversations, rather than a bunch of trolls looking for a stranger to fight with.
This is the most ask question during the first week of semester in an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree course
A must watch video for all the birds,
Pet owners should educate their birds to spread awareness
This question was in mind in years and thank you for making this clear to me.
Yes, as an Electrician I have touched 120v electrical lines, but there are some tricks involved.
First you can be grounded. Electricians never used aluminum ladders because aluminum conducts electricity, and would ground you. Electrician use fiberglass ladders, which don't conduct electricity.
Also you don't touch the other 120v line or the neutral line.
@@antonkemperjr4128 The secret is to learn. Always work with one hand, when you think the wire might be hot. Why? because if one hand is ground and the other is touching a hot wire then the current goes thru you heart.
220v is 120v +120v, there is no neutral on 220v, but the 120v conductor must be on another phase.
This gets a little complicated. You have to study about phases.
At the power plant, the generator has 3 phases or 3 taps
2:30 these guys are masters beyond measure. They have balls of steel.
YOU have brains of OATMEAL....
Maybe, but more likely balls of a less conductive substance, lol.
Allow me to correct a crucial mistake you made in your video about no current flowing through birds sitting on the single power line phase: Are you aware of the step voltage? When a current flows through a loop regardless of its length a certain differential loss is always present. That's why a bird on the power line represents a high-value resistor hooked up in parallel to the line it sits on unless it lifts one leg off and detaches the connection ( open circuit ). A barely noticeable amount of current also flows through its body, but no where nearly enough to be even noticed ( if at all ). Another dangerous situation takes place upon being near a thunderstorm when a lightning bolt strikes the earth at this point of time. The current flowing through the ground spreads 360° outwards. The further more out it flows, the more the voltage drops. That drop in voltage in relation to the distance from the starting point is a dangerous matter. A person walking nearby suddenly feels that voltage difference shooting through his/her legs, causing it to instantly feel uncomfortable and eventually collapsing. That's why it is important to keep both feet tight together in order to keep that crucial voltage difference as low as possible. Wether the voltage difference varies depends upon the earth conductivity in dry or wet condition. Also the amount of minerals and salt in the soil are a contrubiting factor in regards of the dirt chemistry.
Perfect knowledge, when i apply job interview they asked me why birds don't get electricity on their body, I exactly explain that in your way. They little bit shocked but they liked my answer. I got magnetic field course. Thanks to this course :)
Yes! yes! I knew that was the case, but no one mentions it. Very good day to you sir!
What does “dirt chemistry” mean?
@@MCAlexisYT what chemicals are in the dirt.
@@MCAlexisYT Defines what elements the individual earth layers are composed of.
I remember asking my high school physics teacher the question if a person can hang from a power line and avoid electrocution as long as they remain off the ground. He said it's also dependent on the "potential difference". I don't remember the explanation as he gave it to me, but what my brain stored is basically that you can't just hover 1cm off the ground while holding onto a high voltage line and expect not to get fried. So it's not just a simple matter of "as long as I don't touch the ground I'll be fine".
Of course. Just because a material is an insulator doesn't mean electrons cant flow through it. Air itself isn't a conductor (luckily), but as you see, the worker at 2:30 is making the current flowing through air. Simply put, everything is a conductor when the voltage is high enough. Even things like glass or rubber. And thats why materials can also be "half conductors" and having a millimetre thick layer of rubber doesn't save you from getting shocked.
Without a doubt. There's way too many variables. For example, things that are in your person, type of cloth, rings, what's on the ground as well, a million things. There's no black and white type situation where if u don't do this, then x thing won't happn, etc etc
Yeah it's not as clear cut. The rule of thumb is that 30kV per cm of air is necessary to have a current flow through it. But once the air gets ionized, the channel is open and it may expand further. Also in the real world, a bird is not at the same potential when it comes into contact with the live wire. It will take a bit of transient current for the charges in the bird body to equalize with the line. Good example is with linemen working on HV transmission lines from helicopters, they first connect to the line a rod connected to the helicopter body before working on it. At these high voltages the transient current is visible on camera as the rod approaches from the line. Same with AC (even with no load) on a power line, there is always some capacitance to the wire because a real-world wire, of course having a non-zero volume, necessarily stores some charge at any point. That's why we have reactors to correct that in substations (among other sources of reactance in the system). DC power may not seem to have that issue as the potential is constant, but in the real world no regulator is perfect and a AC component is always present. We have all these nice abstractions we can understand with these fancy elegant circuits diagrams, but there is always more to it...
so if my feet are 2m above the ground i'm safe ?
It’s as long as there isn’t a voltage difference. Electricity likes taking the path of least resistance.
How heavy birds with small wings can fly up to power lines in the first place is more intriguing.
Or how hummingbirds can stay in the same spot
This is one of my deepest teenage questions to which nobody I know gave a good answer. Thank you for finally putting my question to rest.
Now you can rest peacefully
Why did electrons didn't went through bird?
Cuz electrons don't want to take a U turn to come in same path or what😂?
Except it's not true the electrons move along the power line to your home. It's better understood as a ripple along a jumping rope.
@@valandhol9four680 or a pulse in a stretched slinky.
Thanks for the info
Ok?
Sir Knight Errant ok?
@@naif9464 ok?
@@sidneyasiegbu ok?
Ok
Plot twist:
You are a bird, watching this to understand why you don't get electrocuted while chilling on power lines with your homies.
More like pov:
That's not a plot twist. I already knew I was a bird
Yep.
nah my homie got electrocuted the other day and now i wanna know how he died. Us birds are weak in physics.
Am a bird reading comments to gain more insights.😂
This video gave me a total appreciation for bird 🐦 brain information.
I asked this question to the science teacher in my 9th standard 2011....after 10 years I am getting satisfactory answer. Thanks to youtube🙏
1:31 Bird: Aight imma head out. 💀⚰️
Doudymac 🤣
Rip 😔
🍗
The clip at 1:51 is a bit misleading. The very high voltage lines shown are actually dangerous for birds to land on and you won't see birds on them (they feel pain as they get close to the wire and avoid landing on it - usually - although sometimes they do get killed). The wires with birds on them in this clip are so-called "shield wires" and they are grounded. Their purpose is to help prevent direct lightning strikes to the power lines (the lightning will usually strike the grounded, higher shield wire instead). The reason why very high voltage (>100,000 V) lines are a problem for birds is that all objects, including birds, have a property called capacitance. The capacitance is bigger when the object is bigger. Since these (and almost all) lines are alternating current, connecting a capacitive load allows a small current flow (essentially electrons flow into and back out of the object on each cycle of the AC). The higher the voltage, the more current flow. A typical residential street high voltage line (about 10,000 V) isn't high enough voltage to affect the birds but large cross-country lines (typically 300,000 V) are a problem.
I seen a bird one day and it was sitting on a wire I stopped looked up at it and started to talk to it we had one of the greatest conversations ever!
I heard about this on Twitter. The bird gave you a positive review in its tweet.
2:30 my mans really almost got hit with force lightning and just looks calm asf lmao
Don't worry he also has the force to push it back
2:02 my man got some really cool moves 😂
I’ve always wondered about that. But even if they do end up getting electrocuted for some reason, there’d be numerous bird corpses lying around anywhere, and that’d also be a complete hassle to clean all of that up.
Or the scavengers will have a free meal - cooked too.
In short:
Electricity is a term used to describe the flow of electrons through a medium with either a uniform electrical potential or a different electrical potential. When a conductor that is not attached to something else touches a medium having uniform electrical potential, the flow of electrons remains within the loop as there is no other electrical potential to travel to. But if a conductor is, say, attached to the ground, then electricity will flow from the higher potential to the lower potential through it.
What happens if a one legged bird lands on the wire
Nothing would happen regarding current flow, as there has to be a complete circuit. However, if it had two legs and both feet were touching the same wire, then a current would flow through the bird but it would be so small that it wouldn’t feel it...
Chicken nugget
True the plug lol 😂😂😂
Her name changes to Eileen!
I`ll be here all week folks!
what happens if it got no legs.. kfc
I'm using a headset right now, and that unexpected sound effect at 1:32 shocked me into battle stance.
Lmao
So, if I end up hanging on a power line, I'll be fine as long as I don't touch the ground while I'm doing that. Got it.
Nor another wire
Rip
Yes. But will die after falling down.
Yes. You'd be fine.
2 seconds to read 3 minutes to spell out.
I was sad to hear a Canada Goose fly into a power line once. The sound was so loud, my friend, me, and other people crossing the street were very startled. It was sad to see the goose loose its struggle once he or she was on the ground. There was what looked like a burned hole in the bird's chest. That's a completely different scenario from your video but it was really startling.
very educational and easy to understand. Thanks for the great vid.
Very well explained. Thank you to whoever put this together
1:30
I'm going to hell for laughing at this and replaying it as much as I am
your not alone lmao!
@Zer0 TE- I was laughing my ass off and rewinding, too😂🤣
It did not die :)
th-cam.com/video/p8HUj37nEJY/w-d-xo.html
@@pruthvirajn7709 oh good, now i dont feel so bad lmao
Very informative video but that part was hilarious bro LMAO hard not to laugh
Good news for birds, but some of those wires the birds were standing on weren't electrical wires. You got phone and cable, insulated wires and even cables that are helping support the pole.
Electrical line man, the most dangerous job.
The real crazy ones are the guys who do it out of a helicopter.
One job where no is claiming to want diversity.
@@BillC-64 there are multiple jobs where a particular group isn’t screaming for diversity. Oil rigs, mining, electricians, plumbing, hvac, road construction i can keep going.
Lol that bird got too comfortable smh 1:32 I hope it’s in a better place 🙏
Its alive i saw the whole video its just it lose its consciousness for a moment
@@ineedmorecarrots6063 death wasn’t it’s destiny
In conclusion: birds really do be playin with they lives 😫
Interesting
They really do be edg-
That describes the term, "birdbrain".
Yaay, you just answered one of things that have bugged me everytime I see those birds sitting on the wires. Awesome!
Thanks for the interesting insight on electrical engineering
weird flex
They would rather take the chance and sitting on a power line versus listening through all the b******* that goes through the telephone lines
Thank you so much for your brief explanation to this mystery... Love your unique way of explaining each point that even a child can understand... Thanks much
Not understand, explain me a bit the reason in ease way why electrocution in birds not happen though electricity conducted by cables???
@shahabuzafarzubaer6919 ,
Different materials conduct electricity differently. There's a reason why we use metal like copper to conduct it, rather than bone.
What I gather is the birds still conduct a little electricity, but not enough to hurt them. In rare instances they do get electrocuted though.
I appreciate the Home Alone 2 clip 🙏
I had no idea those wires were live. I figured it was like the cords in our homes that could be touched, like when you remove a plug from the wall...
Me too
Me, as well. I'm 'shocked' to learn otherwise. You'd think that all the moisture from rain, snow, etc. would short out the wires causing huge blackouts every time there was precipitation. Still, I've seen those wires close up, and they certainly look like they're insulated with rubber.
@@marywealth6475 yea me too
I've wondered this my whole life. Thank you
Very interesting. I have always been scared that they will get electrocuted when I see them on power Lines.
Well the line in the thumbnail is a bracing line not a power line. Power lines are insulated. They only die if their feet get under the shielding.
I finally got the answer, all these years I been wondering thanks!!
But what if a human being touches an electric wire with one or both of his hands without actually touching the ground... I think he would still get electrocuted... This video explains what happens to birds, without explaining what happens to humans and why.
@@ContendersUTube Well, if I understand the video, which it's possible that I don't, if we could stand on the wire like birds, we wouldn't get shocked. The closest example of this is at the end of the video, where the guy is going across 2 wires on his hands and knees. He is wearing protective gear though, and that reduces his potential to get shocked.
2:04 When your crush passes by
😂😂😂
Lmao
I actually saw a pigeon got electrocuted by powerlines on a rainy day, probably the raindrops from its flapping wings caused it to connect to 2 lines at once. The sparks and noises were quite phenomenal.
Sweet, a dinner AND a show!
@@killtie15 that's what my cat would think
I once saw a squirrel bridge two wires. I remember a loud pop and it fell to the ground dead as a door nail. Didn't even twitch.
The actual and much simpler explanation is the wires are wrapped and insulated
Finally, an answer to a question Ive asked myself my whole life but, never remember to look it up lol.
And this is why we have grounding wire, the third prong in a power plug.
50 comments, you and I the only ones to understand ground circuit
Could please explain more, I never understand the use of the third plug
@@michaelk3021 If it's done by a professional in the proper way, every 3rd plug point in your house is connected together and is earthed/grounded... The 3rd pin in any device is connected to the metal part of that device, for example for a clothing iron 3rd line is connected to the metal parts of it.so if due to malfunction or some accident the current carrying line touches the metal part current will immediately pass through the 3rd line to earth instead of passing through your body and kills you,because your body has more resistance compared to the 3rd/earth line.
The reason some electronic devices like TV, mobile chargers have no 3rd plug is because they have no metal outside part that would come in contact with a fault line or a human
@@diljith.cjithu8703 computer lcd monitors does not have any exposed metalic parts, yet they have 3pin.
@@michaelk3021 yes true to some extend.. most generic models don't have metal parts but main stream manufacturers also sells monitors with Aluminium backs and metalic stands also they make all the other pc parts including psu , so they use the 3 pin plug as generic part , for plastic monitor it's not necessary but they are not gonna make a seprate part which is non necessary for just 1 kind of device same reason their laptops also have 3 pin eventhough it's not necessary, it kind of act us just an extra support for the adaptor in some cases... but some manufactures differ like apple macbook have 2 pin plug or monitor only manufactures like AOC has 2 pin plug or even usb power supply monitors etc..
So..here I am scrolling down my feed to select what I want to watch on my evening sesh.
I must say, Im not dissapointed. Short and educational-thanks.
Wow imagine having “The floor is Lava” as your job
1:34 my boi just was like * bloop* imma head out
uuugghhh stfu
Poor guy. An ibis bird i think. He was standing on the transformer and took a look at the pointy things sticking out of it and tapped one with his beak
@@ultrainstinctgoku9321 Certainly! He would never had thought that break would kill him after who knows how many hours of fly. I feel bad for him.
@@francocabrol1689 The line needs insulating urgently but apparently it did not die th-cam.com/video/p8HUj37nEJY/w-d-xo.html
@@pigeonlove wow, cool that you found the original video! Thanks. I love the reaction of the man, though
0:07 someone need to clip this and made a meme out of it
And that someone is you
@@b1njjj95 no that is your third step father
@@rihansa199 Shut up kid.
In my country, civet cats usually climb and travel via the wires in urban areas. They never seemed to get electrocuted as well.
A lot of those wires are communications cables, not electric wires
@@evilsharkey8954 and they are insulated.
🤔 I never really thought of this...you learn somethin new everyday. Thanks 💯
After 15 years at school I just understood this thing from a TH-cam video Good job schools
If you never understood it in 15 years, then you're just a bad student who didn't pay attention
1:34 I shouldn't be laughing at that 😂
That makes 2 of us
Tho, that bird survived tho.
It isn't funny at all
0:16 Because birds are not stupid like human, they wear shoes and gloves and they are saying their prayers everyday for Safety
2:30 holy crap I did not expect electricity to spark like in cartoons and fiction
Birds aren't the only ones immune to electric shock from power lines, Monke also has this power
You didn't get it (if you did, you wouldn't speak of immunity) haha.
1:34 ??
Can’t touch two wires. Moments later, crawling on two wires.
Yeah what a BS 😁
Right ?
what you're not understanding is
1. That's High Voltage
2. When they do they they isolate one side and the other side of the cable they are working on
yeah.. probably not the best time to show that image but...
Here are 2 HV Wires
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
the guy wants to crawl here
they isolate the wires like this so that a circuit still exists and the grid doesn't go down but the power doesn't pass to their part of the wire
-------------- ------------------------------------------------------ -------------------
| |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- ------------------------------------------------------ -------------------
| |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
as you can see they can walk in the middle bit without getting killed
while the power is redirected so the city still has power
they have special instruments that isolate part of the grid so they can work on
it safely
obviously this is an oversimplified explanation but it conveys the point
MAKE SENSE NOW why the guy was able to crawl on it
LET'S ALSO NOT FORGET
Power or no power
HE CAN ALSO FALL TO HIS DEATH FROM THOSE THIN WIRES
Remember
they are thin
and they do move from side to side
THINK ABOUT IT
And why they don't fall is because they have a harness connected to a helicopter
The curiosity has been killing me for years now i know thank you you have earned a sub
The silent kid when teacher explains nothing:
Before the video: I think you don’t get electrocuted unless you touch two wires at once. Let me see if I’m right.
Edit: I was right.
Thats not right.
@@dekisuba r/wooosh
You are absolutely right☺☺☺
Unless you can stand on the ground and touch it.
@@t.r.4496 We count the ground as one big wire.
In the seventh grade my teacher said because they sit using their dead fingernail.😂
In fact that is also a reason why don't they get electric shock. Your teacher is right to some extent.
That is why they teach seventh grade.
Im a high voltage man
But you can touch my rod.
If you are feeling discharged
So weary and tired,
Open your socket
Im ready to plug,
Feel my electricity
Feel the heat in me.
I still don’t get why birds don’t get zapped. This is why I gotta watch things 15 times in a row. And why I dropped out of community college.
😂🤣😭
@Jort Kuiper
What do you mean one altitude? You mean it is because birds light weight, they are the same altitude?
Wtf dude...you get zapped when electricity flows through your body from the power line to something else. If you’re only touching the power line then obviously it’s not flowing to something else. but touch the line and the pole and electricity flows from the line through you to the pole and down to the ground....and that’s what zaps your ass
@Jort Kuiper so if we were somehow able to fly like birds, we’d be able to walk on those wires safely just cuz we’re not on ground?
@Jort Kuiper kay
I was always intrigued about this and I got this video recommended.
Thanks TH-cam! 😀
Because google is scanning your brain and monitoring your thoughts.
I thought electricity needing a ground to flow would be common knowledge.
and the world is full of people who dont understand this simple fact
It doesn't necessarily need a ground to flow. But it does need a closed loop, with a path back to the source.
From where? School? Lol
I know adults who don't know how to wire a plug, so no.
The only easy video I found in youtube and google. Thanks for the video. I understood nothing from books.