POV: *You’ve came from popping the balloon in a cooling tower video*

@octavia8836

3 жыл бұрын

👀

@AlexCFaulkner

3 жыл бұрын

yup

@forkdraws7297

3 жыл бұрын

👀

@Justin-fd7tg

3 жыл бұрын

You got me

@bishopm4401

3 жыл бұрын

Yup lmao. The algorithm got a two-fer

As a young field engineer in the 60's I was responsible for the positioning and construction layout of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island. Yes, they are massive and eerie. Inside one you feel small and insignificant and get physically queasy. Construction was very difficult. We used self-climbing forms, a forming system that lifts itself up for each successive layer. What made it so difficult was that the next layer up had to be just a bit smaller in diameter than the previous one. Then when you reach the three-quarter point the upper layers had to flare out. The parabolic shape is very strong. I had no computer, used a slide rule, but I did buy one of the first 4 function calculators, add, subtract, multiply, divide. Cost me $125 (a lot of money in the 60's) and about the size of a cellphone but thicker. I'm now 80 yr retired Civil Engineer.

@dukx3986

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this comment - . I use HIAA when flying home and am fascinated by these. I have to take a photo from plane every time. Your description of the building process was very interesting.

@allahsnackbar9915

26 күн бұрын

nice piece of history. thank you for your service

These things reminded me of volcanos when I was a kid

@bilalesow5631

3 жыл бұрын

Deadass

@jansonb482

3 жыл бұрын

Same lol

@ayman4307

3 жыл бұрын

I tought they produce clouds 😂😂

@beactivebehappy9894

3 жыл бұрын

I don't even know these things existed when I was a kid...

@thejeffbot

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I thought they were as a kid

I don’t know why but these things creep the hell out of me.

@janelayne6285

3 жыл бұрын

same

@lasithiperera7713

3 жыл бұрын

Samee. But I love that creepiness

@BadWolfSilence

3 жыл бұрын

Megalophobia

@cursedboyir

3 жыл бұрын

Because if someone does this job incorrectly it could be the end of your life.

@jitlandon

3 жыл бұрын

lol

I just wanna sit in one of these and cry in peace

@dustsans9859

3 жыл бұрын

There's more interesting places to cry

@eternalkino34

3 жыл бұрын

@@dustsans9859 behind a waterfall is something I would do no one around my presence masked peace ...

@youtubewasoncebetter

3 жыл бұрын

Don't cry

@maurice9864

3 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@chadh1721

3 жыл бұрын

GAAY

Impressive footage, thanks!

Very thankful to have had the opportunity to work on these up close for a few years when I was 19-23 (I’m now 28). Such a cool experience and the first time I walked through security into the facility and up to one I still remember it was before the sun came up and I was half awake but they just blew me away with the scale of them. You see them from a distance but up close it’s something else I tell ya. The company I worked for was contracted and went around nuclear plants all around the country and we worked during the outages replacing the fill sheet (piece of thin cement like material the water hits to aid in the cooling of the water). Actually stepping inside a cooling tower for the first time kind of freaked me out honestly it was just an odd feeling with how tall the walls were and you were in an empty “room” 50-60ish feet off the ground (there’s space underneath that room where the fill sheet and all the water lines are then it comes down in more of a mist into the base where it’s then pumped back into the plant to be reused). I was extremely “lucky” one trip when we were in PA I was able to climb the ladder up to the top to change the bulbs which took a few hours with lots of breaks and me being absolutely horrified of heights even a normal home ladder gives me vertigo but I’m so glad for that opportunity...eating lunch sitting up on top was an incredible experience and one I’ll treasure forever and the pictures I took from up top will be a reminder. Unfortunately I was no longer to keep working that job due to a bad ankle break but I’ll never forget the experiences and amazing group I worked with over the years. We hired local temporary workers to help us and some were brought on full time to travel with us which is how I got started. The money was great the only downside was the constant travel but for me being young with no real responsibilities I loved it. I worked many different jobs since that time and still find myself wishing I could continue doing that I genuinely loved waking up working extremely long hours just to do it all over the next day (and I’m absolutely not a morning person typically but that job, it wasn’t a problem at all to get up for). Sorry if this was all over the place or random I just came across this video randomly and it brought back a ton of great memories and I just wanted to spew them out here quick for my own enjoyment mostly🤣...miss the money too, not having anything to spend it on really let me save enough to buy my first home

@chromitehertz9016

3 жыл бұрын

What'd you work as?

@MrSbionage

3 жыл бұрын

@@chromitehertz9016 I was just a contractor technically. If you want to get into it just look up nuclear outage jobs near you. You may not get a full time position with them after but you at least have your foot in the door and experience and the following years outage they’ll likely call you to see if you want to help again, that’s what my company did at least. We mailed a letter to everyone who helped the years before to offer them a position when we got back to the plant near them and the ones who responded yes were then usually some of the ones we’d bring on full time if we had openings and if they were interested. There’s a lot of security clearances/training you need to complete and it’s kind of a long process before you start working but there’s a lot of other people doing it with you and my training/testing was all paid. Hope that helps some!

People now: how did people think before computers? People then: with their brain

@podomuss

3 жыл бұрын

@Jack Django just like any other technology, it makes things easier, and it makes things progress faster. Are we gonna say ‘how did humans travel before the horse’ And then respond ‘with their legs?’ See, it’s stupid.

@jumpnrun3368

3 жыл бұрын

@Jack Django And I think a steam loco is a bunch times complexer than this tower. No computer as well.

@dontletcoronabite4245

3 жыл бұрын

@Jack Django yeah technology is definitely making us more stupid in many ways. It helps us, but we also put our trust in it too much and forget the basics of many things.

@jakewhite3163

3 жыл бұрын

Jack Django so true and now we have the knowledge of the universe but somehow can’t make shit they made years ago, people are smart but lazy and laziness doesn’t spark innovation or success

@tikkihummerl5113

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it’s really scary

I always find standing inside a cooling tower quite eerie and I do not know why. Especially any sound you make adds to the effect.

1:30 is that homer simpson?

@cyrogers6700

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, That's him alright

@vinjanderson

3 жыл бұрын

This Comment deserves a donut

@iwonthesitateebltch3319

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinjanderson this comment deserves a muffin

@Godknown

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@nutz-rj3ei

3 жыл бұрын

@@iwonthesitateebltch3319 no, a donut

In the inside this looks like the well from Batman .

@luqmankiani

3 жыл бұрын

Was literally about to comment that, from batman begins

@britannic124

3 жыл бұрын

It’s too coincidental that the top comment has a Batman logo as their profile picture.

@britannic124

3 жыл бұрын

@Dewarren Marshall Wha-?

These kinds of things terrify me. Idk what it is, but being anywhere close to a massive object such as this, just terrifies me. Yet walking through a city by sky scrapers I'm fine

@Lailahailey-fh8qx

Жыл бұрын

Camosquid if that scares you then you have what I have and its called megalaphobia the fear of things of a large scale...

@CamoSquid

Жыл бұрын

@@Lailahailey-fh8qx yes

Amazing what human kind has acheived out of sheer brilliance

@DoesntHurtYet

3 жыл бұрын

As opposed to sheer stupidity I'd suppose. In which we've accomplished a lot less but no less brilliant.

@Procrastinater

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoesntHurtYet Stupidity is subjective. I miss the unbound optimism for the future, as opposed to the cynical teeny angst we've been burdened with since the mid 60's. Bring back the world fairs, inject some hope for the future by celebrating inventiveness and human archievement. The world is ever so slowly getting better by the day, and has so since forever, but that does not sell books, nor does it get you invited to speak or secure you any grants. If you want to start talking about stupidity, you might as well start there.

@Procrastinater

3 жыл бұрын

@Floki Ab Maybe you would not find my comment so stupid and such a "waste of your time" early in the morning (idk why you had to tell me) if you actually bothered to wake up properly and comprehend what was written, not just glance at it and start assuming (might be giving you undue credit by saying that's what happened though) All you managed to do is to sound like an abject moron. Never said anything about the world being better pre 60's, I said the sentiment of people has changed since the mid 60's to be bleaker, for no real benefit to mankind. If anything, you agree with me since I said that the world is becoming ever better, so yes, it's much better than it was in the 60's. We're just being held back by people who harp on about the end of days and how innovation and the inventiveness of humanity is somehow a curse. I was just pointing out how tiresome it is, you just reaffirmed it.

@DoctorJ1337

3 жыл бұрын

@@Procrastinater I completely agree. Pessimism and nihilism are all too easy these days. It's those that possess unmitigated optimism and a strong sense of faith in humanity, that will ultimately save us from our absurd struggle (if anyone can).

"I honestly dont know how they did it back then." the dark age of technology is a mystery to all.

the ending saying doesnt make me feel any better lol, "i honestly dont know how they did it back then" lol

First, the steam (boiler water) used to turn the turbine doesn't go thru the cooling towers. The water (steam) used to turn the turbine is ULTRA pure... like 0.05 micromhos conductivity so you don't get plating, corrosion, erosion on turbine vanes and boiler tubes. The water that goes thru the towers is used to condense the steam back into water via tube heat exchanger. The heat transfers from the steam side of the exchanger (converting the steam back into water) to the cooling water side, then to the water tower and out the top.

I live near one of these but never knew how or what it did. Thanks!

"vastness of the open space sort of hits you" I wonder what you have to say when you end up in a desert

@ihmsfm1040

3 жыл бұрын

It will be a different experience

@tepuntopunto

3 жыл бұрын

they meant the experience of entering a huge contained space. A landscape is natural we all have experienced it and our brains are used to the idea, to see a huge empty space contained like this is not a mundane human experience, the closest thing would be a huge cave.

And most people think the towers are the reactors, but they are just giant condensers to cool down steam

POV: This ain't a pov and I just came here to tell you what video you watched before this one. Popping a balloon inside a cooling tower... Am I right or am I right?

@ts-wo6pp

3 жыл бұрын

yep lol

Great sound effect, can really feel it. 🔥🔥

Imagine a rave in there

@mikehoncho2640

3 жыл бұрын

is his name Juan?

@divine3803

3 жыл бұрын

You mean a earthquake

@squezary

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikehoncho2640 what?

@squezary

3 жыл бұрын

@@divine3803 ?

0:53 Michael Caine, get away from me!

@tirthsolanki90

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same! The voice is so similar to Michael Caine 😂

@Skelanth721

3 жыл бұрын

It's a completely different accent

@danyoutube7491

3 жыл бұрын

@@Skelanth721 They must be from outside of the UK, mistaking a Yorkshireman for Michael Caine! I can't begin to see the likeness at all.

I remember coming to drax on a school trip in year 6, best school trip ever will never forget it haha

Makes me think of entering into a boss room.

Thanks for your sharing

what is the Temperature in a operation cooling tower nearest the grid of pipes to the top ?

as Zig Wil has written ''First, the steam (boiler water) used to turn the turbine doesn't go thru the cooling towers'' and second this is from me, the Steam turbine inlet is high pressure, and the Steam turbine outlet is a low pressure, less than the atmospheric pressure, the whole system is in a complete Closed-loop Systems.

These things used to terrify me as a kid, and I still don't like looking at them even now.

I have been in an active cooling tower the humidity was 100% couldn't see the top because of the water vapour. When I walked out I could feel the draft blowing on my face it was the best feeling ever

i love seeing cooling towers

Whats the music at the end called?

Bruh this is steamy stacks

I went to a theme park in germany once and it was at an abandoned plant. Its called kalkarr and they have a nice attraction in the cooling tower

0:51 tell me the track please ?

Is this were the scene from Terry Gilliam's Brazil was shot?

@dosdeviant

3 жыл бұрын

That was my thought too.

0:41 1 fraction of a second & it immediately reminded me of the simpsons nuclear plant lol

Eerie but also pretty in a sort of way.

Reminds me of Aperture. Suddenly a facility that big doesn't seem so impossible...

did this only get bigger today?

I just want to train my body, mind, and soul in one of these. Only to later become someone’s boss battle in their journey for meaning in this world.

@moldypickle6157

3 жыл бұрын

Why can I relate to this

Help now I’m in an infinite loop of Chernobyl videos AAAAAA

Pennywise: "Hey, MTV, welcome to my crib!"

@Titanium3X

3 жыл бұрын

Crib, CRib, CRIb, CRIB!!! 🔊 🔊 🔊 📢

What song is at 1:08?

@flameofficial3382

3 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering that myself... I love it.

@pieter490

3 жыл бұрын

Darude - sandstorm (bootleg edit)

@flameofficial3382

3 жыл бұрын

@@pieter490 DO-DO-DO-DO DA DO-DO-DO-DO DO-DO-DO-DO-DO DA DO-DO-DO-DO-

Whats cool about that shape (hyperboloid) is that its made entirely from straight lines. Imagine a bundle of dry spaghetti, bound with a rubber band 2/3 of the way up. Then twist it slightly so the tips spread out. That's the shape.

Dude! Looks like a giant still to me!

I think the way to design these many really complex structures was much easier than today. Not easy in the sense that the structures were simple. First of all I think the engineers back in the day really did know what they were doing and back then they were not flooded with rules and regulations like today. Some of my older colleagues have told me that reports that today are 400-500 pages back then were only 5-10 pages.

This my motivation now

yeah its certainly noticeable

Looks like post apocalyptic futuristic Abandoned structure

I get terrified when I stand in a grain bin it’s just like this tower

"To design one of these would be extremly complex"... i don't say it's necessary easier, we are still talking about high engineering, however, they managed to project, build and run nuclear power plants only by using blueprints, paper sheet and slow ass room like framework computers back then, so why it would be harder today, where you are (in some cases) be able to even simulate an earthquake on your project and discover its weaknesses?

@cbbc711

3 жыл бұрын

Simply because we have nowadays much higher quality standards. And being able to write a code that perfectly simulate a earthquake or any natural event is super difficult

@sam_music555

3 жыл бұрын

@@cbbc711 i don't understand. Safety requirements are better over time as well as engineering quality so does. So why it would be harder to do the same thing. Otherwise than simulation that are so difficult, i thing nucler pp are designed nowadays as well as other big engineering structures like we did yesterday

Me: "trying to drop off at the top of it in pubg"

I’m so freaking dumb I thought I, I thought that nukes are made in a nuclear facility and the cooling tower is where the nuke gets launched from...

@nowasfalsebanned2769

3 жыл бұрын

I thought they were indeed made in a nuclear facility...

Reminds me of Dark on Netflix

And we'll march day and night by the big cooling tower. They got the plant but we got the power.

Plot twist: You go into another world;)

Ohhhh I thought it said it was a “cooling towel” 😆

@Enes-wj5xq

3 жыл бұрын

What a noob lol

Wow, what is this music?

You came here from "POPPING THE BALLOON IN A COOLING TOWER"......

I feel so stupid when I was a kid I’d look at that and say wow that is a lot of smoke Now I realize it’s just water vapor

@lois3356

3 жыл бұрын

and many adults nowadays still think like that. where I live, the left eco party made a billboard ad with the "good eco mother nature lovers with solars panels" fighting the "greedy polluting capitalists, with cooling towers releasing dark smoke" how ignorant... and yes, they are against nuclear power, so they try making it look like the smoke they release is something toxic and pollutant.

Lol, ngl I wouldnt mind living in those😂

I want Rob Scallon to make music inside one. Seems like he would do that.

Me: minding my business KZread: here, watch this nuclear plant cooling tower

@ProGamer2167

3 жыл бұрын

It's not nuclear its coal and biomass (biomass only in march)

Looks kinda like earth at a point

Meanwhile in other countries: popping a balloon inside power plant cooling tower

I honestly don't know how they did it back then....

I went school in drax seen these every day

I want my funeral held in one of theses now

I didn't come here for a documentary.

The holy place where balloon was tested for the first time. No life can grow there now.

Ironic how he enters an enclosed space to encounter the vastness of it.

That's the saddest thing I've heard for a long time, "I honestly don't know how they did it back then." One generation and all non computer skills are lost.

I didn't know that was water!

Sean Bean is a nuclear power plant engineer now?

@chrisburn7178

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing nuclear about this, it's a coal and biomass-fired plant in Yorkshire, England.

Fantom Aeronautics would like to play and record a track in here.

don't mind me writing this down for the future zombie apocalypse

@gourisree9991

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes this would be an amazing hiding place for us I think it would be safer than the bunker.

Why do I keep feeling Jonas will pop out from somewhere

This feels like the aftermath of a apocolypse or some soet and you are just travelling around like that one manga about megastructures and the vast land of human made structures feel surreal

Bruh just came from the balloon in a cooling tower video

Mylta power in real life.

I would think that "back then" things got done out of necessity. Whereas today, things get done only after vast amounts of money, red tape, committee meetings and such

they didn't rely on computers too much back then just brains n thats why most not all ppl don't no how things were done in the past!!

The guy explaining how it works sounds like the king of beggars in the Witcher 3

0:55 MY GUY SOUNDING LIKE TOMMY BUT OLD

@protato69

3 жыл бұрын

You stole my thoughts🤪

I cane from a video where a guy popped a balloon in one

POV:*I DONT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE BUT I JUST WANT TO COMMENT*

too short, i need more insight

Mate they were pretty well off for engineering in the 60s

Why steam is condensed to water then again reheated to steam bck to turbine . Why not steam is superheated??

I would think that "back then" things got done out od necessity. Whereas now, things get done only after vast amounts of money, red tape, committee meetings and such

Dude why didn't you let one rip or something? Missed opportunity if you ask me

Why are you trying to film a horror movie about cooling towers?

I want to put some speakers and go high volume.

Cool

Video: 7 inches thicc me: EXTRA THICCC Edit: its the shape that gives its strength. Gigigty gigity goo

I want a cooling tower.

i just wanna lie down in one of these. maybe that will make me feel better

I only remenber Dark

i doubt this would ever happen but the scariest thing ever would be if you were to climb on top of that cooling tower, you'd look down and stare at the ground,, just thinking "oh man i sure hope i don't fall-" And suddenly WHOOOOSH ur falling 140 meters down to the ground. I don't know why i wanted to make this comment, i just did. yes