Electric
Electricity is a way of carrying energy from where it is generated to where it is used. Explore power plants, transmission lines and local grids, and how operators keep supply and demand balanced as the system changes.
19 films · Newest film first.
Synchronous Condensers: Buying Back Grid Inertia
· 19 min
Wireless Power: Why We Still Can't Cut the Last Wire
· 16 min
Pumped Storage: The Water Battery Inside a Mountain
· 21 min
The Solar Storm That Could Take Down the Grid
· 18 min
The Queue: Why Clean Power Waits Years to Connect
· 15 min
The Power Plant Made of Your Neighbours' Batteries
· 16 min
Black Start: How Do You Restart a Dead Power Grid?
· 25 min
Transformers: The Giant Machines Taking Years to Deliver
· 15 min
Waste to Energy: What Happens When We Burn the Bin?
· 22 min
HVDC: Why Power Grids Are Turning to Direct Current
· 20 min
Heat Pumps: How They Work and What Holds Them Back
· 16 min
Industrial Heat Pumps: Can Factories Stop Burning Gas?
· 19 min
Grid Batteries: Can Storage Save the Power Grid?
· 18 min
Mega-Dams: Clean Power or a Dangerous Bet?
· 22 min
Copper: The Metal the Electric Age Is Running Out Of
· 23 min
Geothermal Can Fracking Tech Power the Grid
· 15 min
Electricity The Invention That Made the Modern World
· 9 min
What Happens When the Power Grid Fails
· 8 min
The Transformer Shortage Holding Back the Grid
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