Four huge cooling towers at Rugeley Power Station in the UK were demolished within seconds | SWNS
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2021
- This is the dramatic moment four huge cooling towers at the historic Rugeley Power Station were demolished in just five seconds. The 400ft high towers collapsed in a cloud of dust following a controlled explosion at 11.15am on Sunday (6/6). The demolition was pushed back 15 minutes to avoid disrupting the D-day commemoration event at the nearby National Memorial Arboretum. Owners Engie livestreamed the event on RUclips to prevent hundreds of onlookers flocking to the site. The coal-fired power station dominated the South Staffordshire skyline since the 1950s providing electricity to millions of homes.
The imposing landmark represented one of the region’s last links to its proud coal-mining heritage. The four remaining towers made up Rugeley B which joined Rugeley A on the sprawling site when it was completed in 1970. The first of five towers to be built at Rugeley A became the world’s first large dry cooling towers. The closure of nearby Lea Hill colliery in 1991 required coal to be transported by train to the furnaces. This led to the power station’s downfall with Rugeley A beginning to be decommissioned in 1994.
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I use to tell my children that it was a CLOUD FACTORY that makes clouds for the sky. Now where will the Clouds come from ?
I suppose now you could teach them how clouds are actually formed?
@@themafia3119
I did tell them once they were older but they didn't believe me. I said that fairies make them out of cotton wool & put them in the sky but they said We have actually seen the Cloud Factory !
blow more smoke
Love that little story. When we used to drive through the Welsh forests and see mist coming from the trees I used to tell my pair it was the forest breathing. A bit the same I guess.
Grew up in Milford six miles away- always regarded the cooling towers as a landmark
Was an historic site torn down with no respect for rugeley folk
I went on a tour around the power station in the eighties & stood in the middle of the dry cooling tower that they were experimenting with. Awesome.
Always thought I would haul up down that road and take a hike to the base of those things one day but never did. I think they might have freaked me out if I dared it.
Thousands of hours of hard work gone in a few seconds.
At the mercy of a schoolgirl
@@thedrinkinggamemaker9749 You don't get a schoolgirl like that when things are okay, go look at the comment sections of videos speculating on a post 4 degrees celsius world (unlikely given our progress, but not impossible), the predictions are apocalyptic, and the comments are filled to the brim with despair, hopelessness and resentment, Greta is a whole generation of people bro.
End of an era. I remember supplying coal for rugely from the pit.
It definatley will be strange not seeing them as we drive past anymore
Scenery already looks much better
Changed the landscape with the most unspectacular explosion ever.
Very good video with a very good location for the shot. The demolition looked as if it was expertly carried out.
Having spent the majority of my working career in the power industry, I still feel sad to see the power stations demolished.
Yes very sad, they should leave them standing tall
They need to rebuild them now... It was the wrong plant..
@@lilli6828 You didnt get it - dont worry yourself to think about it. lol
@@lilli6828 Call it "over-thinking" lol
@@lilli6828 Dont be sorry for who you ever are, ever... I just have a dont take life too serious personality thats all - its just an headache!! - thanks for commenting though
Great footage 👍
Wow! In real life, it was much quieter.
So sad to see them being demolished. They were an iconic part of our landscape in staffordshire.
They looked like shit
Not really. You were just used to seeing them.
@@joshooahh LOLLLL
I was actually shocked when I was there as they dropped down so quick
Watched a few different angles of this and without fail, there’s a round of applause at the end of every one 😆👏
I wonder what Fred would think...
Should have used ladders, hammer and chisel with Donald at the bottom with a flask of tea and a tin box of sarnies.
@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 😂😂
Awesome spectacular structures that had a purpose and were a part of history .
Yet again Britain’s industry just getting ripped away to make way for more housing !
One day we’ll realise the big mistake and rebuild them .
Yeah people should live on the streets or stay in their parents house till their 60s.
What industry? They didn,t produce anything anymore. The only sad thing about it is the number of my workmates who died in accidents building the place and the few of us who are still living with industrial diseases such as asbestosis.
Ah yes, it's so sad that a relic of a bygone era of environmental destruction is finally gone. What a shame...
We'll rebuild coal mines and coal-fired power stations? Er, why?
I know what you mean @and11rew09, very sad, dont listen too these cancel culturing woketards replies, they have no idea what you mean👍🏻😔
It's like squashing a can
I will miss these majestic giants across the countryside. Happy to say I have been inside a fully functional one, shut down for cleaning.
sad ending for these incredible structures 😪
Imagine a Pig balloon floating by as they drop...
Reminds me of the twin towers. Also building 7 . which wasn't even hit by a plane.
Close to the Twin Towers
Controlled demolition.
Its going to be incredibly strange driving past now without them towering over .
Amazing job these guys did!
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Thats exactly what's going to happen! Quicker than exoected if LePen gets elected in the next French election!
Are the bricks cheap?
Not bricks, made of reinforced concrete.
I was there and my heart dropped I would of screamed if I wasn’t recording 😂
This is precisely why Cardi B should be banned from queefing near any type of industrial infrastructure.
Queef..... 😡 Just say FART!!!
Drove past them many times .
The part you actually want to watch is at 0:58.
Amazing.
Oh my goodness lord 😱... Isnt tis explosion controlled ? ..
im mortified
sickkkkkkkkkkk thx for the vid
Love.
And the World wept as the 4 gigantic bongs fell into ruin -Mark Twain
Illegally downed
It will seem very strange not to see them 😢
I remember back in the early 1970,s we lived in Great Wyrley near Cannock, and on Sundays especially if it was a nice day, we could see from our upstairs the steam rising from this coal fired power station, but where does the electricity supply come from now?
Solar, Wind, Nuclear
@@bigdarbs19 France
France mate
Crazy Sunday my husband so angry lol ,😆 road close ....
And no jet fuel in sight.
I respect the reference
Both, controlled demolition.
Or the huge kinetic energy hit of commercial jets flying high speed into a building. All the Twin Tower conspiracists forget this step: the towers were significantly structurally weakened by the energy of an aircraft flying into it full speed, this is BEFORE any burning jet fuel gets to work on the weakened beams.
Video was about 75 seconds too long.
I prefer the field I sat in to watch this compared to this actual good vantage point ngl
Not great not terrible .....ooh shit
I cried
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Me and my team built the power station in 56’ I do not find it funny !
Tbh I’m from Walsall but always ended up driving past these every so often, they wasn’t the prettiest thing but I was always in awe of them they just looked cool no pun! I would always slow down as I drove past to look at them, I brought a drone 3 years ago and the first thing I thought about filming was these, so I went and flew it right down and out of one as the peeked over the fog on a autumn day, I went there today to see them go, and as soon as they where no longer visible I actually felt quite sad too!
@@Plobbot1974 B station was opened in '70?
The build started in the late 50s was completed 72’. I was not there until the end.
So so 😥😔😟sad
I’m here from the daily dose of the internet
The first minute............................................................................... 💤💤💤
0:58 youre welcome
So where does Rugeley get all its electricity and power from now?
Then they were gone, seen to go into the next disaster / alien invasion movie
bye bye cloudmakers...
Sad to see them go 😔☹️
Cant say alot. Payback is in the pipelines
Can the debris be recycled or reused in any way?
I know I was there to
Wow! Reminds me of the collapse of the Labour Party!
Like the towers, they stand for nothing now.
End of an era....a landmark from before I was even born... .. when I used to go on jobs in the summer holidays with my Dad he always used to point them out...... quite sad really. I guess Radcliffe will be next....
A bit like the twin towers ..
I thought that meself haha
Both were controlled so yeah
It looks so cool!
Can we see some mosques going the same way? 👍
😂😂😂👍
nine eleven...........
Just like 911
Lol
why are they clapping?
Because dirty energy is ending
And so another piece of our past disappears without trace.
Wow! COOL!!!
Applauding ex-cooling towers now, ffs. Please stop. It's not British.
Clap for the NHS like a seal
Well said, David
Use the available labour now so when everyone is gone the remaining who survived would not have to worry about nuclear issues in their post apocalyptic world... Applause applause I know what your doing I am not mad at it
Ilegally demolished in my eyes
Thank god those hideous eye sores have gone 🎉