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Baronjutter posted:From the gif thread. Ah, so this is the Metal Slug I've been hearing about
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Nenonen posted:Welcome to Finland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDWYVgMxBss
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May 17, 2017 22:41
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Nenonen posted:In urban centres the wires go underground but in the grand scale, over millions of kilometers of rural powerlines that would be totally impractical. Hence rural areas suffer power outs all the time during storms and blizzards while I have never personally experienced a power out in a city. Sure the cables can get cut by diggers, but it seldom affects many households and will be fixed briefly. In the rural areas a big storm can cut power from thousands of households and fixing the problem takes time but the lowly peasant accepts his lot. It'll be interesting to see if we get more underground HTS (high temperature superconducting) power cable systems. You have a cryostat cable that you pump liquid nitrogen through to cool. They have an installation in Columbus Ohio that has 13.2kV, 3000 amp cables. So now not only do you have to worry about electrocution and arc flash/blast but dangerously cold nitrogen.
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Nenonen posted:In urban centres the wires go underground but in the grand scale, over millions of kilometers of rural powerlines that would be totally impractical. Hence rural areas suffer power outs all the time during storms and blizzards while I have never personally experienced a power out in a city. Sure the cables can get cut by diggers, but it seldom affects many households and will be fixed briefly. In the rural areas a big storm can cut power from thousands of households and fixing the problem takes time but the lowly peasant accepts his lot. Moving power underground requires doing relative backflips because high power lines need fancy poo poo like those superconducting schemes or HVDC with inverters that cost shitloads more because if you run the same cable that runs above ground, all the power turns imaginary because impedence or whatever.
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May 17, 2017 23:59
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zedprime posted:Rural areas suffer power outages due to single point of failure networks, where urban networks are a spiderweb with automation that has gotten pretty good at shunting broken areas to keep more viable areas powered. Mississauga uses underground power cables in a lot of areas and it works fine
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May 18, 2017 00:03
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Nenonen posted:In urban centres the wires go underground but in the grand scale, over millions of kilometers of rural powerlines that would be totally impractical. Hence rural areas suffer power outs all the time during storms and blizzards while I have never personally experienced a power out in a city. Sure the cables can get cut by diggers, but it seldom affects many households and will be fixed briefly. In the rural areas a big storm can cut power from thousands of households and fixing the problem takes time but the lowly peasant accepts his lot. Also buried lines can also fail, and when they do getting access to and repairing them is a much bigger deal than if a tree falls on some wires. So in most places burying the lines isn't justified.
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May 18, 2017 00:04
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May 18, 2017 00:36
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Three-Phase posted:Well this is just one (right at the end of the video): Yes!  That's the stuff.
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Nenonen posted:Welcome to Finland Just to make sure I understand what is going on here, is that a helicopter with a tree saw dangling from a pipe/stiff cable?
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May 18, 2017 01:04
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PittTheElder posted:You don't even have to bury the pipe if you don't want to. Do something like the Trans-Alaskan pipeline, but way cheaper because you don't need to be maintaining high-pressure seals or anything. TAPS is not easy to maintain even when oil isn't flowing into it, it's way easier to just use above ground poles. Oh and Alaska also uses the chainsaw helicopter for tree maintenance along high tension runs.
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May 18, 2017 01:19
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In almost every city I've been to they had underground utilities. The above ground cables seems to be a real north-american / developing world thing. In my city a small area of the downtown core is all underground but outside of that it's just a tangle of trees and wires.
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deoju posted:Spotted this gif of a roofing accident in another thread. Before climbing, it's important to check the inside of the structure of hazards. India: Not Even Once.
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Zil posted:Just to make sure I understand what is going on here, is that a helicopter with a tree saw dangling from a pipe/stiff cable?
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deoju posted:Spotted this gif of a roofing accident in another thread. Before climbing, it's important to check the inside of the structure of hazards. I definitely did not expect that.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yes! That's one of those things I'm surprised anyone in a crisis has the presence of mind to remember from training. Plus I'd be terrified of tripping, falling down, and melting my face off.
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China invented proper electrical safety 5000 years ago
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MF_James posted:I definitely did not expect that.
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Zil posted:Just to make sure I understand what is going on here, is that a helicopter with a tree saw dangling from a pipe/stiff cable? 
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May 18, 2017 02:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RadDJX6o_BE Its used around the world.
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May 18, 2017 02:38
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Metalocalypse invades our reality, and it is glorious.
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May 18, 2017 02:39
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It's a giant flying Super Meat Boy trap, really.
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Thanks, I knew they used saws and other things from helicopters, but did not expect the saw to be that large or used so close to transmission lines.
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May 18, 2017 02:42
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And let us never forget https://youtu.be/rF1vfMM3W08
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Baronjutter posted:China invented proper electrical safety 5000 years ago No no no feet together! Feet together!!!
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May 18, 2017 02:52
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RadDJX6o_BE My favorite helicopter/tree interaction is still that bonkers Christmas tree farm pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA
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Fly Molo posted:That's one of those things I'm surprised anyone in a crisis has the presence of mind to remember from training. Plus I'd be terrified of tripping, falling down, and melting my face off. I can speak from personal experience that if you set yourself on fire, the first thought in your head after "Oh dear, I seem to have set myself on fire" is "AH gently caress, I SHOULD STOP, DROP AND ROLL".
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Scruff McGruff posted:My favorite helicopter/tree interaction is still that bonkers Christmas tree farm pilot this is legit like watching Rembrandt paint, dude is at the pinnacle of his craft
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May 18, 2017 03:02
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Scruff McGruff posted:My favorite helicopter/tree interaction is still that bonkers Christmas tree farm pilot I want to make this into a video game
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Improbable Lobster posted:Mississauga uses underground power cables in a lot of areas and it works fine In the larger scheme those <50kV lines are like the last mile transmission in a developed area and is baby time compared to the 100kV+ lines that would need all the special junk to bury and not completely bust (itself or the bank). Anyway I'm not sure why it is even a US vs the rest of the world discussion because the US has a lot of buried cables these days and the poles are mostly strung up with telecom.
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I live in a newly developed area (maybe like an exurb?) in the finnish countryside and I noticed all the power here is underground, as is the fiberoptic and telecoms stuff. I got a few km to another area that's from the 70/80s and it's poles.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I live in a newly developed area (maybe like an exurb?) in the finnish countryside and I noticed all the power here is underground, as is the fiberoptic and telecoms stuff. I got a few km to another area that's from the 70/80s and it's poles. I think you have to go much further south for poles.
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Baronjutter posted:I think you have to go much further south for poles. The gently caress are you talking about, he's already in Finland. Just head north a couple (or 20) hundred miles and he'd be right at the pole.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:The gently caress are you talking about, he's already in Finland. Just head north a couple (or 20) hundred miles and he'd be right at the pole. unless he lives in the northern part of finland a much closer supply of poles is to be found in eastern europe
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There aren't many poles of the ambulatory meat-version 'round these here parts. Lots of vietnamese though, and other south east asians, and various balkan people. Last time I met a pole was a week ago, he was a truck driver coming to collect something and spoke only russian and, I guess, polish. Fortunately a coworker (from belarus) came back from lunch and could sort it out.
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Baronjutter posted:In almost every city I've been to they had underground utilities. The above ground cables seems to be a real north-american / developing world thing. In my city a small area of the downtown core is all underground but outside of that it's just a tangle of trees and wires. Yeah, now think anywhere outside the cities, aka most of the US. Ain't nobody going to bury a mile of cable to service one farm, and keep doing it for hundreds of miles per county.
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Some guys are installing windows on balconies in my building, and this morning when I left for work I found this in the lobby. Nothing wrong with that doorstop!
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