People are going to be angry about pylons.
Britain’s power grid is turning inside-out, which means pylons are about to become a lot more controversial in Britain. At the National Grid Training Centre, I climbed one. ■ The “Great Grid Upgrade”: https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade
National Grid also asked if I’d plug their Early Careers page, for anyone in the UK thinking of joining the industry: https://jobs.nationalgrid.com/UK/content/Early-careers/
Camera: Kamil Manysiak, Nathan Trays, Lauren Morley
Local production: Greg May and Matt Ellis at Broadcast Media https://www.broadcastmedia.co.uk/
Editor: Michelle Martin https://www.youtube.com/@OnTheCrux
Audio mix: Dan Pugsley https://cassinisound.com
Thanks to Dave Brain for camera-sensor-dust paintouts @davebrainvfx
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September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
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@AntimatePcCustom
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
In Denmark vast majority of new large grid project involves underground cabling. even if it cost more…
@CraigMilesYoutube
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Very interesting video.
@marissabarnes821
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Miss these Vids Tom. Lateral doesn’t cut it.
@Kyusoath
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
all this because they were too lazy and cheap to do it underground.
@dimmm1
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
I miss tom 🙁
@NedCarpenter-d2i
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
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@fullhouse-2065
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
I thought pylon was a person's name since I watched jojo's bizzare adventure part 4. Turns out it was the tower. Thank you for the info
@Mochi-si1bq
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Thank you American Tom Scott in closet
@Steve14ps
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
People don't like transmission towers (pylons) but do like electricity at affordable prices
@pahom2
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
It is demagogue. The decision is to spend more on an underground infrastructure or pay less and build pylons. It is not about power or no power.
@Reflecks_
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Best Camera Work ive ever seen
@GH-oi2jf
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
That's commitment!
@The_Metalorian
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
I miss this dude like you wouldn’t believe
@qlue7881
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Really starting to miss Tom's content now that he's retired
@Daniel37parker
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
damn has i been 7 months already. 🙁
@leonitasmaximus4004
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Just about a month ago or so they were working on these "pylons" or as we call them in the states "Power Towers". Coolest thing was that they actually bring the workers to the towers by Helicopter. They would hang from the bottom of the helicopter with all their tool bags and those ladders and fly them over and drop them off onto the towers and would move them from tower to tower. The helicopter would then fly over to where all the glass isolators were staged, pick up materials and supplies, fly them to the workers and repeat.
I noticed on these pylons they only have 1 set of the glass isolators. The same thing is true for our towers that they just worked on. So I guess that both the US and Britain are doing the same tasks currently.
@maryt9375
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Just found your site – what a breath of fresh air
@RichardHare
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
"Tommyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!"
@eznf98
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
I miss your videos
@stephaniemattabobadilla
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Wow i really hope to be able to experience this once in a lifetime as an electrical energy engineer. Amazing!
@chriscoughlan5221
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
arent these giants cancerous!!??
@nickedwards212
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
I used to go around taking photos of electricity parlours. It was my hobby at one time but they still are amazing things.
@Kane-BOT
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Here 🇺🇸 a pylon is a tall skinny traffic cone
@MatthewHill
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Isn't that ladder conductive…?
@EddieRiff
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
6.4 million plus subscribers, billions of views, who needs main stream TV for a career!
@timothyvenn4193
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Tom, that was an excellent piece, very very professional. Good luck in the future.
@UnipornFrumm
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Ppl who hate power lines should move back to caves
@hadleybanks2640
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
there won't be any decisions about Pylons, imagine they tell the nation "you're getting underground cabling and it's going to quadruple your electricity bill because we need the power companies to fund it, or you can pay 5% more tax and the government will fund it!" 😀 lmao never happening.
@SirZeck
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Damn, time flies it's been for months already without tom's weekly videos.
@Triangulum303
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Much respect for you!
@onchnc3546
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
There is an official Pylon appreciation Society. Good stuff
@anjanavabiswas8835
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
No Mr.Scott! Don't gooooo! 🙁
@TheStarBlack
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Tom would definately have been a Blue Peter presenter in a past life.
@Timurv1234
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
If Matthew Macfadyen was Dr. Evil, Tom Scott would be Mini Me
@removechan10298
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm
nice smile on their face as they say the gov wasted BILLIONS on pouring into projects that NEVER CONNECTED UP and will never be maintained and WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED before they are even CONNECTED and you all pay for that.