Inside a cooling tower
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Standing at over 114 metres high, each of Drax’s 12 cooling towers are 86 metres in diameter at their base, 53 metres at their summit, and could comfortably fit the Statue of Liberty inside. Everything about them is huge, but they are not the unsophisticated masses of concrete they appear from afar. Find out more: www.drax.com/t...
POV: *You’ve came from popping the balloon in a cooling tower video*
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You got me
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.
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.
nice piece of history. thank you for your service
Wish they'd have invented the camera or video camera back then, would be awesome to see how they built the cooling towers. You'd think it would have been something they'd wish to document for historical purposes, or for government safety records. All we get is a finished plant photo sadly.
I don’t know why but these things creep the hell out of me.
same
Samee. But I love that creepiness
Megalophobia
Because if someone does this job incorrectly it could be the end of your life.
lol
These things reminded me of volcanos when I was a kid
Deadass
Same lol
I tought they produce clouds 😂😂
I don't even know these things existed when I was a kid...
Lol I thought they were as a kid
I just wanna sit in one of these and cry in peace
There's more interesting places to cry
@@dustsans9859 behind a waterfall is something I would do no one around my presence masked peace ...
Don't cry
Wtf
GAAY
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
What'd you work as?
@@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
@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.
@Jack Django And I think a steam loco is a bunch times complexer than this tower. No computer as well.
@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.
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
Yea it’s really scary
Impressive footage, thanks!
1:30 is that homer simpson?
Yep, That's him alright
This Comment deserves a donut
@@vinjanderson this comment deserves a muffin
LOL
@@iwonthesitateebltch3319 no, a donut
Amazing what human kind has acheived out of sheer brilliance
As opposed to sheer stupidity I'd suppose. In which we've accomplished a lot less but no less brilliant.
@@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.
@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.
@@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 always find standing inside a cooling tower quite eerie and I do not know why. Especially any sound you make adds to the effect.
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
Camosquid if that scares you then you have what I have and its called megalaphobia the fear of things of a large scale...
@@Lailahailey-fh8qx yes
In the inside this looks like the well from Batman .
Was literally about to comment that, from batman begins
It’s too coincidental that the top comment has a Batman logo as their profile picture.
@Dewarren Marshall Wha-?
"I honestly dont know how they did it back then."
the dark age of technology is a mystery to all.
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.
"vastness of the open space sort of hits you" I wonder what you have to say when you end up in a desert
It will be a different experience
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.
Imagine a rave in there
is his name Juan?
You mean a earthquake
@@mikehoncho2640 what?
@@divine3803 ?
the ending saying doesnt make me feel any better lol, "i honestly dont know how they did it back then" lol
0:53 Michael Caine, get away from me!
I thought the same! The voice is so similar to Michael Caine 😂
It's a completely different accent
@@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.
And most people think the towers are the reactors, but they are just giant condensers to cool down steam
I live near one of these but never knew how or what it did. Thanks!
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?
yep lol
These things used to terrify me as a kid, and I still don't like looking at them even now.
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.
Bruh this is steamy stacks
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 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.
Why can I relate to this
Eerie but also pretty in a sort of way.
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.
0:41 1 fraction of a second & it immediately reminded me of the simpsons nuclear plant lol
Makes me think of entering into a boss room.
i love seeing cooling towers
Looks like post apocalyptic futuristic Abandoned structure
Great sound effect, can really feel it. 🔥🔥
Help now I’m in an infinite loop of Chernobyl videos AAAAAA
I remember coming to drax on a school trip in year 6, best school trip ever will never forget it haha
I get terrified when I stand in a grain bin it’s just like this tower
Reminds me of Dark on Netflix
This my motivation now
"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?
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
@@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
Mylta power in real life.
yeah its certainly noticeable
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
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.
Reminds me of Aperture. Suddenly a facility that big doesn't seem so impossible...
Pennywise: "Hey, MTV, welcome to my crib!"
Crib, CRib, CRIb, CRIB!!! 🔊 🔊 🔊 📢
The holy place where balloon was tested for the first time. No life can grow there now.
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.
I only remenber Dark
I honestly don't know how they did it back then....
Why do I keep feeling Jonas will pop out from somewhere
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...
I thought they were indeed made in a nuclear facility...
Thanks for your sharing
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
POV:*I DONT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE BUT I JUST WANT TO COMMENT*
Fantom Aeronautics would like to play and record a track in here.
Looks kinda like earth at a point
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
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 cane from a video where a guy popped a balloon in one
0:55 MY GUY SOUNDING LIKE TOMMY BUT OLD
You stole my thoughts🤪
Me: "trying to drop off at the top of it in pubg"
don't mind me writing this down for the future zombie apocalypse
Oh yes this would be an amazing hiding place for us
I think it would be safer than the bunker.
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
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
Sean Bean is a nuclear power plant engineer now?
Nothing nuclear about this, it's a coal and biomass-fired plant in Yorkshire, England.
I want my funeral held in one of theses now
And we'll march day and night by the big cooling tower. They got the plant but we got the power.
I didn't come here for a documentary.
Is this were the scene from Terry Gilliam's Brazil was shot?
That was my thought too.
Plot twist: You go into another world;)
Bruh just came from the balloon in a cooling tower video
-the last scene from "Brazil", the movie...
You came here from "POPPING THE BALLOON IN A COOLING TOWER"......
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
I want a cooling tower.
The guy explaining how it works sounds like the king of beggars in the Witcher 3
I want Rob Scallon to make music inside one. Seems like he would do that.
I went school in drax seen these every day
0:34 who else thinks that music starts to get a bit creepy...
Wolverine Vs Deadpool makes this more interesting
Mate they were pretty well off for engineering in the 60s
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!!
As a kid I used the think it was filled with slime green liquid
Me: minding my business
CZcams: here, watch this nuclear plant cooling tower
It's not nuclear its coal and biomass (biomass only in march)
Ironic how he enters an enclosed space to encounter the vastness of it.
Blade Runner chills at the end
Quick, somebody pop a green balloon!
“I don’t know how they did it back then. “
It’s only 50 years and saying exactly the same thing they said about the pyramids.
Dude why didn't you let one rip or something?
Missed opportunity if you ask me
I didn't know that was water!
Lol, ngl I wouldnt mind living in those😂
3% of the UK’s total carbon emissions
How’s is it that the more we progress the less we understand?
Those who understand put in the time to do it and the rest of us just enjoy it.
@@hpowen88 did you watch the video or you just here to wax pseudo-philosophical? Because brother in the video was talking like we’re on the brink of being unable to build cooling towers. And that just one thing, think of all the stuff we no longer have the knowledge to do that was simple shit to people in the Middle Ages. We can’t work a Baghdad battery but we can use nuclear power. It’s like we’re walking on a beach always brushing away our foot prints.
@@RequestAssassin you put out an ambiguous question. I put an ambiguous answer. Not sure why you're getting all worked up. We don't even know if Baghdad batteries actually were batteries. If we forget how to make cooling towers, we'll figure out a different more efficient way.
They weren't batteries
i just wanna lie down in one of these. maybe that will make me feel better
The music reminds me of stranger things
Meanwhile in other countries: popping a balloon inside power plant cooling tower
The balloon video was better tbh
Why are you trying to film a horror movie about cooling towers?
What song is at 1:08?
I'm wondering that myself... I love it.
Darude - sandstorm (bootleg edit)
@@pieter490 DO-DO-DO-DO DA DO-DO-DO-DO DO-DO-DO-DO-DO DA DO-DO-DO-DO-