Lightning DIRECT HITS! Towers and Antennas Compilation
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2012
- A high definition 1080i compilation of direct lightning strikes to towers and antennas, many at close range showing sparks, smoke and beading lightning channels! See more at stormhighway.com and follow on Twitter at / stormhighway . Copyright Dan Robinson.
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I love how the lightning bolt leaves a trail of rising flames after it ends
John Smith it’s called bead lightning
Looks like sparks
its the ultimate pulsed plasma 2 stroke, but it burns much hotter than klotz gas electron bond mix, that barley reach 4500 deg f but this lightning has way more enery and gets over 60000 deg f and it fires on every stroke, So natures 2 stroke is far far more powerful!
Plasma
I saw lighting strike a field (about a 1/4 mile away), one time, and it left a glowing streak of hot plasma in the sky for probably 15 or 20 seconds. I first thought that the lightning had left a little hot flash streak on my retina, but I looked away and looked back twice, and the sky was still showing a glowing streak in the sky. Lighting is a terrifying freak of nature.
I am amazed how well ground systems work on those towers, not only they protect the antenna and transmitters but each time, that little beacon light continue to flash like nothing happened...
I think we should try to find a way to convert the heat generated by the lighting into usable electricity using antennas like that. Maybe even produce artificial lighting to have energy whenever we need. That would be awesome
Facts
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess I was thinking the same thing but in order for the problem here is that you need to decrease the conductivity of the wire to make the temperatures rise. But a decreased conductivity would decrease the probability that lightning would strike at the lightning rod which defeats its primary purpose ie. protecting other electrical components from lightning damage.
0:20 1:05 Very good design of "faraday cage" around the beacon light so it (or its wiring) doesn't get destroyed during the lightning strikes.
I have been a storm cell watcher many decades and I've just linked from Suspicious Observers here on UA-cam. I literally blown Away by this channel and your very impressive website. That's dedication most don't do.
Pretty cool listening to lightning on AM radio
The bead lightning in some of these shots is incredible...
SHAZAAM!
Anyone know if even the best grounding protects the equipment on these towers? Does the equipment on these towers get inspected after an electrical storm?
1:25 Interesting demonstration of how "lightning rods" don't always work. The antennas further down the tower got hit, even though there is a much higher point above.
I'm amazed about that!! Wonder what happened to the transmitter... D:
It did work there. It just hit a lower portion.
2:20 Lightning is confused. 😂😂
I mean it’s not about higher points but rather the path of least resistance to ionization
0:47 now that's a nice one!
Me increasing my speritual pressure while raiding area 51
I notice at 1:25 the VHF panel antenna takes a direct hit. It appears there's a dissipator on top of the UHF pylon, above the strobe head, but the points are getting burnt off by the strikes its supposed to prevent.
It will have a lightning conductor (rod) on it.
Thats kinda an issue we just have to deal with. The temperatures reached when the dissipators are hit vaporize and melt part of the metal, no matter how high of a melting point it may be. Just gotta replace once in a while until new methods are introduced
Lightning doesnt strike the same place is a myth..
I believe in theory it won’t because the positive ionized material became negatively charged so nothing is there to pull the lighting strike back onto the surface since it sees it as neutral... but these antennas are usually grounded so any negative charged get absorbed into ground thus making it positive charge to draw in lighting strikes.
Unless you are a lightning rod…
it counts when there's no manmade structures in play
I had a lightning strike at the same place twice at my house it was terrifying
you got me 🖐️😌🤚
I'm so fascinated by lightning! It's just so Amazing!
I'm worried about my unearthed 18' vertical stationmaster can't earth em power will always go down the coax
The last scene looks amazing with the red lights on the towers they all have the same beacons and side markers
its amazing how the lights never get knocked out!
I think they're protected with something.
Anxiety There are actually metal Spikes around the Beacon to absorb the Lightning. And these metal spikes are grounded so the Electricity goes to ground. The Beacon is never actually hit with lightning. If it ever gets hit, it would instantly blow up the Xenon Flashtube and Controller
@@khalidhebshi5318 Plz tell me did lightning conductor catch all the lightning strikes around the radius of 500 meter 🤔
Here's a question: Can someone hook up a radio setup of some kind to a lightening rod, could it theoretically act like an antenna for the radio? Assuming power requirements are moot?
trying to figure this out for a book. Any input welcome.
Stunning to watch
0:46 cool
@Celesse's Herrera Yep That is cool !! But remember when you got hit by that same cool Lightning What will Happen HOT!!
Space For Everyone yea lightning is 5x hotter than the sun!
The sound delay gives like a thrilling to it
If possible.the lightning arrester can resist the voltage of a thunder. How about it will be converted into alternating electricity..just a opinion
Of the observer weeker.
I thought lightning never strikes twice in the same place..:)
Who says it doesn't, you never know what lightning can do..:)
It does when its harvesting energy
That's a myth. Skyscrapers get struck by lightning hundreds of times per year.
Here is the reason why (It is striking in the same place) well, you know metal objects can get striked easier because if the material it's made of. Do not wear any metal objects on you or your wrisk because it will burn badly.
So if a lightning rod the lightning will only go to the rod? So everything else is safe?
That's one tought lightbulb!
I think it's a Nokia
For some reason, I suddenly feel... electric.
Anti-Collision Beacon. There is usually a cage around them so they are protected from Lightning. There is a video of a Chopper filming the Antenna on the North Tower of the World Trade Center, that shows exactly what is up there.
I’m surprised the light at the top of the tower still works after the strike
It’s a lightning rod made to withstand some of the most powerful lightning bolts.
One time. My dad works at a tv station. I was there. I remember seeing lightning struck his tower at 800ft in Fort Wayne. It was very loud. You could hear the zap of the lines on the tower.
Where this took place
Excellent!
I like the break up into bead lightning
Who is watching this during a storm?
A whole lot of lightning, very little Thunder like War of the Worlds by Spielberg. I've been close enough to hear the "tick" before the Boom!
nice video
Why in the world did the light at the top of lighting conductor didn't blow up?
MD. MONIRUL ISLAM There are actually metal Spikes around the Beacon to absorb the Lightning. And these metal spikes are grounded so the Electricity goes to ground. The Beacon is never actually hit with lightning. If it ever gets hit, it would instantly blow up the Xenon Flashtube and Controller
2:08 that lightning looked almost like a number 5 to me!!!
and they say ligthning will not strike 2 times in the same place
That lightning rod ?
Vaov cant believe ppl afraid of that!! Look how shiny and sparkly it is 🥰
Were are the radio towers located at 2:33 i feel like i have seen them before in TX
♣ShadowWolfGaming INX♣ Your thinking of transmitter farm in Cedar Hill, Tx. They can be seen throughout much of the southide of the D/FW area.
It’s in at albans wv and it’s a broadcast tower
The sparks that seem to float down after the strike? Little pieces of molten incandescent metal?
lol..ya think??
Its molten metal. The green light at the point of contact is actually due to some of the metal being vaporized.
Amazin how te light was sill flashin
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They make these to absorb lightning. The strike gets sent through cause its grounded electrical is on a difrrrnt grounf
this is actually towers utilizing the energy of lightning.
secretly.
by the government
illuminati
There are actually metal Spikes around the Beacon to absorb the Lightning. And these metal spikes are grounded so the Electricity goes to ground. The Beacon is never actually hit with lightning. If it ever gets hit, it would instantly blow up the Xenon Flashtube and Controller
Is their any way to put something like this in the forest and homes to prevent fires?
Yeah you can buy lightning rods for your house. :)
2:12 this was barely visible!
Lightning rods are awesome
Thank Benjamin Franklin.
You know how much power that thing is getting
1.21 gigawatts!!!! Lol
Video subtitle- Not for Broadcast
And then you broadcasted on whole UA-cam
What keeps the equipment this antenna is hooked up to from being destroyed?
Lightning rods or lightning conductors we call them in the UK. The bolt travels down the wire into the ground so it doesn't affect the antenna.
almost all of these antennas have a shield that is grounded so most of the lightning power gets shunted to ground since it will take the path of least resistance, and that's directly down the tower into ground rods and into the ground, I'm sure they also have some pretty beefy lightning arrestors that ground the center coax conductor when a voltage spike is detected
It never strikes in the same exact place it could be off by a few millimeters but it never strikes the same place the exact same place twice if you watch closely you'll see it strikes at different angles or unless the lightning rod which in this case that's all that Tower is
OMG! I can't believe it, it's a real video?
Yes
Igor, ITS ALIVE!! ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!
How does lightning not travel down the guy wire cables?????
Is it just me or does the lightning rod reduce the loudness of the thunder from the bolt?
Thunder and lightning come frome the same source. The reason you hear the sound after is strikes the rod is because light travels a lot faster than sound. So no, lightning rod does not reduce the loudness of thunder. That's prolly a just a crappy microphone.
Lighting Arrester? Looks like one...
I’m the 2.5K like! Yeah!
ok so we cant harness this power efficiently enough yet.. besides, most of it is expended just making the connections.. but why the heck cant we put up a "blimp" that absorbs the static electricity in the first place?
Self fund or seek investors/grants then go for it
Because it's expensive and unreliable.
that light bulb said "meh"... and continue to flash...
Do these towers create lightning for weather control or other purpose maybe?
No; in fact, they're grounded to help prevent and protect against these kinds of strikes.
These things are built to broadcast
Like that connects to Huntington and Charleston
That thing is 1552ft in the air
If there is a tower near a house thus it effect the house
It actually depends on what type of lightning arrester is been put...normally an advance i.e ESE AIR TERMINATION is put...ESE stands for Early Streamer Emission Air Termination absorbs the lightning directly and gets it earthed through the earthing material into the ground and normally ESE catches almost 300 feetlightning streamers around so your nearest building is safe enough to save from the lightning thunder bolt..
Dr. Stone brought me here.
2:24 ooooh look how it goes across the top of those.......
So you're telling me that antenna can beat Voldemort?
I live near this tower
How tall are those towers?
Rob Fern 1500 to 2000 feet tall
This is in cedar hill tx
Also the tower at 0:19 flashes similarto one that is 12 minutes away from my house.
WZIP TV
Is it possible to harvest all that electricity?
Yes bro. Haven’t you seen Back to the Future? Haha
Oh yeah !! ❤️🙏🏼🌩️⚡
How are you provoking so many of them?
Lightning travels the path of least resistance toward the ground. The tower conducts electricity better than the air does so it uses the tower as a shortcut to the negatively charged ground.
@@racer927 Plz tell me did lightning conductor catch all the lightning strikes around the radius of 500 meter 🤔
Did the lightning actually hit the radio tower?
yes and the tower is earthed, so the stream of electricity gets sent to the ground.
blah x4
It looks like they tend to be built with a faraday cage design, such that the charge goes through the edge and around the middle.
@@justmorestufftoyou Plz tell me did lightning conductor catch all the lightning strikes around the radius of 500 meter 🤔
@@farazkhan21fierce yes madam,there is lightning arrester counter device situated below part of the towrr...it tells how many times has lightning arrester has repelled the thunder bolt..
How to install it, please full description please
Go to cloud land you will meet a Pearson who's name is will
Ask Zeus
i know it might sound like a silly question, but can we use the lighting to recharge a battery or not?
alazmi Alameera I wouldn't try it but maybe
lightening protection system no need to use the power on operation
Good question! I shall explain.
In a nutshell, we can't store the electricity blast from a lightning bolt because it would cause even the most robust high voltage machinery to overheat and explode. Also, lightning's electricity is what is known as static electricity, which is different to the alternating current used for most of the earth's humans ( DC also is used sometimes).
Also, if we DID have the technology capable of storing and withstanding a lightning discharge, we wpuld need to put a power pland in a place that has lots of Cloud-Ground (CG) lightning, the big spectacular bolts that hit the earth. Unfortunately, most places, stormy or not, have not too many outbreaks of rapid CG activity, except the desert southwest. The storms there produce epic amounts of CG, bombarding the landscape. If we did design and build a "lightning catcher" we would probably build it there.
Hope this answers your question and have a great day!
Alex Lubbers looking forward to that, I hope someday we could build something like "conserving lightning energy" or ( lightning storage).
And then supply it somewhere part of the earth that hasn't been used to electricity due to incapability of having it.
@@alexlubbers1589 wow
Who is watching in 2021?
....the guy with the camera closes his shutter a millisecond after the lighting hits. lol at least it sounds that way
The Lightning has Strikes the Lightning Rod
1:08 I like because I love loud stuff
Tower hahahaha you can not break me
40 kA per microsecond
1:33 Cool
That’s sad for a tower
WOW
Now I am
What if go to sewers heat up and kill all bacteria and get endless steam ?
ياحبي لصوت الصواعق.وياخوفي منها.....
Antenas
I wanna hire the ground guy to do my tower
I would love to build a lightning tower.
08/08/2021 Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India what a day
0:45 that was a zap 😊
I would think that is something made up in TV and the movies
tis a wonderus thing
At 2:22 TV tower farm
When I hear that sound I’ll jump out the building
Direct Hit from tf2
1:05 1:06 1:07 1:08 1:09
1:50 1:51 1:52 1:53 1:54
Yeet
1:32 1:33 1:34 1:35 1:36
ببینم چیکار میکنی!!
Are they even harvesting that energy?
+z1mt0n1x
That would be impossible. Once a lightning bolt strikes, all that energy disappears and gets converted to heat, light and sound.
A lightning bolt is caused by positive and negative charges in the ground and the atmosphere. You could think of this as a giant battery. Once a lightning strike occurs, this "battery" is immediately drained.
The only theoretical way it could be done is if the atmospheric charges are harvested *before* they become a lightning bolt, which in itself is impossible because there is no way to predict when or where these charges will occur.
And now TPTB have learned how to use the technology reversed. It's pretty clear from the flow of the energy that the lightning from the second tower is emitted by the tower itself, not the clouds. Try and speed tap on space/click the mouse quickly before the lightning strikes the tower and you should see this in action.
Analytical Justice try to learn a little bit of Physics and and Some history on Nikola Tesla
Analytical Justice Watch ElectroBOOM’s Video on Free Energy
@@Felamine Plz tell me did lightning conductor catch all the lightning strikes around the radius of 500 meter 🤔
سبحان الله
You been... #THUNDERSTRUCK!!!
it's amazing how God put this in man's head how to do that type of stuff