What happens when skyscrapers are struck by lightning?

[@seanpassant3174]

As someone that has designed lightning protection systems for over 28 years, most of this video is absolute nonsense. The clip of the stream exploding is fake, it's not a lightning event at all, it's "Blast Fishing". The description of the 'device' on the Burj Khalifa is an "Early Stream Emitter" or ESE & they are not recognised at all by the international standard (IEC 62305) and even illegal in some countries. It's a shame that such nonsense is spread as "Interesting Engineering".

[@helbold2]

When the narrator said "300 million volts of energy" I knew it wasn't going to be accurate. Volts are not a measurement of energy. Volts is a measurement of potential energy between two points. You can have low energy with high voltage or high energy with low voltage.

[@IAmThe_RA]

A telecommunication tower (about 50m tall) is located like just 30 yards away from a house that my sister just bought and she's planning to live there in a couple of months. We were told by the community there that during thunderstorm electronic devices and appliances in the residential houses located near the tower will get damaged if they are being plugged. We live a in 3rd world country so you know telecommunication companies can get away with stuff like this as long as they signed a huge contract with the government. Anyway can you explain the science behind that? And what can she do about it to prevent surge in her electrical circuits that can damage her electronics? (I did tell my sister that she will have to at least have a device called SPD installed in the electrical panel by an electrician before she lives in that house).

[@seanpassant3174]

@@IAmThe_RA Unlike HV or LV faults which can "return to source" (IE complete a circuit) lightning cannot (it can't go back up into the cloud base) it is also very high frequency so it does not behave like like conventional electricity. When all of the lightning energy goes into the ground, it can continue to travel through the soil, the accepted distance for this is 2Km however in anecdotal evidence we have seen distances of of up to 10Km if conditions are right. That means any electrical circuit or equipment within 2Km of the lightning event can be interrupted and damaged by the lighting energy. The best course of action is to install surge protection to ALL conductive services like electricity, data and telephone.

[@IAmThe_RA]

@@seanpassant3174 Thanks for your reply. Is it possible that the lightning energy gets into the home circuits via the Earth rod? Also do you think it is better that the SPD is linked to a different Earth rod instead of being linked with the Earth rod that is supposed to carry leakage currents from the lighting and power circuits at home back into Earth?

[@seanpassant3174]

@@IAmThe_RA The energy can enter a property via an earthing system but as they all share the same "earth" in effect it's not possible to use a different source of "earth". The SPD will provide protection from inductive coupling (entering via a shared electrical service) and galvanic coupling (entering via an earthing system) so it provides protection from both sourced of surge energy.

[@box420]

Nice det cord clip at 13sec

[@VeganTruk-yv7nn]

Why not capture its power and convert it to useable electricity?

[@dopiaza2006]

because there's virtually no usable power

[@TechsScience]

If we are Able to harvest electricity from lightning

[@Hobble.]

Awesome work on your videos recently. Your narration, the fact you quote video sources, and seem to cover a variety of subjects. It's nice to see :)

[@garrysteptoe2279]

@ 4.26"and nature growing increasingly unpredictable" how old is the planet? nature has and always will be boss!

[@میردانش-ش1ط]

That strike at 00:13 in the stream was frighteningly awesome.

[@trader2137]

its not a lightning strike but a set of explosives detonating to deepen the canal, its shameless that 'Interesting Engineering' brought this up, even though its obvious!!!

[@box420]

It's not, it's det cord

[@dopiaza2006]

and fake

[@datguynate]

The fact that this creator uses a blast fishing clip as "lightning hitting water" suggests there's prolly other inaccurate "information" throughout ur video.

[@CrazyGamer-ix3zo]

Pretty sure 0:12 is not lightning

[@Aksakal1917]

An engineering channel should not use Volts as energy unit.

[@will-cc3dx]

Hello @Interesting Engineering, I have a question, how does a lightning "choose" what to struck? Is it random or is there science behind?

[@change2135]

It's due to electrostatic forces

[@user-ht9ll6xg5z]

if he explained the video would double time if you want to know about it there is a video on it just search "chinese lore meme" and click the first video

[@arbinpunk4819]

How do people survive lightning strikes.

[@globalislamicreminders]

What is the name of the narrator ?

[@andrewcard8109]

Stephen hawkins

[@dogukancil5128]

300 million volts of Energy... Somebody was sleeping through science lessons.

[@MrNobodyAttn]

how did benjimi franklin not die During experiment kite

[@shaikhbakhas1324]

It is a physics about the metallic lightning rod conducting mother nature's electricity cloud lightning

[@अग्निमित्र-द8स]

1:18 🤔🤨🤔 RIP 😱🤯😳

[@Er.Sunil.Pedgaonkar]

Knowledgeable

[@lifeofps325]

uhh, large buildings need lightning rods

[@mohammedayaz2006]

Cool

[@Wyborn_Lovat]

I got here from search a quote from Who Killed Markiplier

[@irfanullah8255]

Gry

[@geetbhagwat9902]

ACCORDING INDIANS MYTHOLOGY LIGHTNING STRIKE IS SISTER OF LORD KRISHNA 😆😅😅😎😎

[@radhapaswan7168]

Please ignore this person, even in real life...

[@radhapaswan7168]

@Taki Tachibana Yes, i do believe

[@crazyveteran8041]

@Taki Tachibana there is nothing wrong to believe in god

[@owner2959]

i read somewhere you guys have more than 200 millions gods... how you guys track them ? do you guys pray different things to different god ?

[@jonh3024]

😂 this video is a joke. That's not lighting striking water. That's a det cord. Good try though.