Do Liberty City's Power Lines Connect To Anything?

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Practical Engineering "How Does the Power Grid Work?"

Aaron Danner’s “Identify equipment in a substation”

Wikipedia: “Service Drop”

saVRee: “How Electrical Bushings Work”

Engineering in Plain Sight by Grady Hillhouse

OSHA.gov "Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution eTool"

[any_austin]

And finally thanks for watching I love you have fun see you later.

[theblank]

Electrician here

It is VERY common for poles to not be connected to anything. upgrades, houses demolished, new lines, there will be poles that "dead end", and they just leave it there for future use

for the case where you figure they could have jumped to a building from a closer pole, that is also realistic. it has everything to do with the load characteristics of the building. the circuit which is closer to the building is likely not sufficiently large to supply the whole building, or the incorrect voltage

the only thing that doesn't happen frequently, is buildings connecting electricity from one to the next. this is almost never done, so i would assume the overhead connected apartments are actually low voltage or fiber optic/internet.

finally, your overhead service example is 50 years old. its called open bus system to have 3 or 4 racks connected to the building. nowadays they use 1 rack and use a twisted set of wires for 3x less work and the same outcome.

sick vid thanks

[PracticalEngineeringChannel]

We are all powered by the Nine Mile Point Entergy #5 Natural Gas Plant on this blessed day. Thanks for including me!

[adobecult]

eventually austin will have enough city planning, engineering, and socioeconomics knowledge to build his own town. and they say video games aren't educational

[rabbitofdeth]

Star Wars Battlefront expert here,

That transition into the map around 00:38 made me very happy and I enjoyed hearing those beeps again. Thanks.

[adnrewn]

Did I give a shit about the wires in Liberty City this morning? No. Am I very concerned about them now? Yes.

[SWISS-]

22:27 - that's just a ghost pole. I'm a fully qualified spiritual Electrical Engineer and when a pole dies, sometimes it's soul will stay, and hold up the power lines. This normally only works for about 3 years, then it's soul realises it has died and leaves for pole heaven.

[Mylo]

One of my neighbors as a kid told me if you touched one of those anchor points you would die… after I already touched it. And instead of realizing they were obviously wrong, I just waited in terror day by day for the inevitable end.

[BruinsPastaSauce]

imaging being the game designer who did this work.. never in a million years did they think someone would research this. man this is why i love the internet. you yourself think of things no one else really does but then you get people who do that and make these type of videos. just awesome

[Pookias]

As someone who builds powerlines what stands out is all poles with a single wire that's not really a thing. And not every single pole needs transformer cans.

[joshstewart]

The thing with Rusty Schit is painfully realistic. it's the kind of thing that happens when a place like Rusty's was built 20 years ago and was the only thing that needed power there. Then the area grows and more industrial buildings pop up so they decide to run another line straight down the middle to service all the new places.
Nobody thinks it's good and it's certainly not designed that way from the start, it's just legacy situations being patched over because it's easier and cheaper than doing it properly.

[katieleigh]

Substations are actually often disguised as regular buildings, so a substation could be any house in the game connected to the grid.

[AsbakwTheSage]

I love how this is the most niche, nitpicky topic in the world and yet Austin manages to make it both very funny and engaging. This man is pioneering the “worldbuilding and specific set design” criticism space on YouTube and I don’t know how to feel about that.

[delecti]

This might be a weird compliment, but I love so much how you don't use these sorts of videos as a way to criticize. The most important thing is that the game *feel* right, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy spending too much time examining them.

[MegaDuncz]

Electrical engineer here, only reason I can foresee all those lines going into one small building is that the building is either a facade for an underground train station electrical station or the connections have been Jerry rigged for an illegal hydroponics growing operation, sometimes those places will pay for multiple electrical connections to not appear as suspicious with the huge amount of energy or sometimes they'll just connect directly and bypass meters but that's more obvious

[_B_K_]

I've seen a substation explode... scary sight. Was sitting in the parking lot of my university, all of a sudden hear this loud buzzing sound coming from my right... I look over and there are giant electrical plasma arcs coming up from a substation a few blocks away. Then all of a sudden one of the huge transformers exploded and the entire area got covered in black smoke. It was an interesting afternoon.

[Lampe]

21:27 Nico scratched his head in exactly the right moment XD

[SamusKnightK]

“Ayyy Niko! Come, let us go bowling!“
"Bah, Roman I am busy."
"With what?“
"I am making map of Liberty City power line system!“

[CollinHeist]

Electrical engineer here! 11:45 One of the reasons higher voltage is used to transmit power over long distances because power loss is a function of the current squared and the line's resistance (P = I * I * R), and by raising the voltage of a line you are able to reduce the current by a proportional amount, which then has an exponential effect on reducing power loss.

For example, 2x the voltage results in 1/4 the power loss to the line's natural resistance.

Great video 👍

[DeNaga]

Used to work for a company managing electrical infrastrucure and can confirm at 9:20ish where it looks like a weird way of getting power into the building, wherever cables are located on someones property you have to set up a long standing regular payment to use that property. I'm sure there's a world where the property between the two poles is unable to be used.